leo varadkar

Leo Varadkar is sorry for saying that urban Ireland pays the bills while farmers receive subsidies. He “did not mean to annoy anyone”, he said on Wednesday. But, as anyone who has ever encountered a privately educated centre-right Dubliner may not be surprised to hear, it wasn’t the first time he had a remark to pass about the country cousins. And Leitrim , it seems, never forgets. Cllr Paddy O’Rourke, the leas-cathaoirleach of Ballinamore Municipal District, pointed out on Ocean FM during the week that Varadkar had once claimed “there’s no such thing as Leitrim”. This is clearly an existentia