Irish Examiner view: Early clarification is essential over Varadkar's role in GP contract

Mr Varadkar must offer a credible explanation on the leak and particularly why he felt it necessary.

If the Government is aware that one of the primary reasons it is in power is that a significant swathe of the electorate voted for it through gritted teeth because the alternative is so unpalatable it gives little enough indication of that realisation.

It has turned a deaf ear to the growing public anger on several important, defining issues. The mother and baby homes fiasco is an example, golfgate’s still unresolved conflict another.