Leo Varadkar has returned to the office of Taoiseach in keeping with the agreement underpinning coalition government 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
Aoife Moore, political correspondent for the Sunday Times in Ireland, said:"Leo Varadkar is the first gay Taoiseach we've ever had and the first minority Taoiseach we've ever had, Rishi Sunak the first minority prime minister... so this is a fresh start."
During negotiations, Leo Varadkar warned the EU that a hard border between North and South could lead to IRA violence. Billy Hutchinson, a former loyalist prisoner and now leader of the small Progressive Unionist Party, said:"Whenever anybody has a dislike for anybody, anger comes first and that is what happened."From that point of view, if he really wants the Republic of Ireland to work, then he needs to make sure that he has friendly neighbours," he added.
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