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Leo Varadkar under fire for attendance at UK festival

Tanaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar.

Every politician has a right to a private life, and indeed to privacy, although it is very hard to guarantee the latter in the modern social-media glasshouse. 

Nobody knows that better than Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, so he must have at least suspected that someone would take and post a picture of him at the Mighty Hoopla festival in London at the weekend.