LEO HAD ENOUGH OF DAIL-Y GRIND
Varadkar bleats Taoiseach role too time consuming
It’s most evenings and weekends. You’re always on
LEO VARADKAR LATE LATE SHOW, RTE LAST NIGHT
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FORMER Taoiseach Leo Varadkar whined the job was taking up too much of his time.
Mr Varadkar, who resigned last month just days after enjoying an all expenses paid jaunt to the White House, moaned the role was like four jobs in one.
Speaking to Late Late Show host, Patrick Kielty, he whinged: “It does take over everything.
“Certainly when you are Taoiseach, you are always Taoiseach and it is very long hours. It is most evenings, most weekends, you are always on. That shouldn’t be forever.” Mr
Varadkar said he “didn’t know” if Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou Mcdonald, who once branded him smug during an appearance on the Late Late Show, would make a good Taoiseach.
Mr Varadkar said a lack of experience could make the first two years tough for her even though he said it didn’t hold Barack Obama and Tony Blair back.
When asked if he was comparing Mary Lou to them, he said: “I didn’t quite say that now. I’m just trying to be balanced.”
The former Fine Gael leader boasted he never let bad publicity get to him, stressing that the biggest downside to the job was “never having enough time to do the things you wanted to do”.
He complained: “It’s essentially three or four full-time jobs. You’re still a TD for your constituency, you are the leader of your party, you’re running the Government as Taoiseach and you’re also essentially representing the country abroad.”
Meanwhile, Leo said he is mulling up an offer to write a book about his years in Government.
When Kielty joked he could be Kylie Minogue’s roadie, he quipped: “I would be so lucky”.