07/01/2023
In the Republic of Ireland, Leo Varadkar has for the second time been appointed Taoiseach, or Prime Minister. He resumed duties in December as part of a coalition deal which sees his own Fine Gael Party forming a majority at the Dail with Fianna Fail and the Green Party. Sinn Fein, a party which performed well at the last Irish General Election, but which has been frozen out of the coalition, has criticised the two largest parties Fianna Fail and Fine Gael for forming a power sharing deal. Mr Varadkar meanwhile, is Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach and one of only four openly gay world leaders to date. Fine Gael has an LGBT+ section, Fine Gael LGBT, and in 2017, Leo Varadkar became the first Taoiseach to march in Dublin's Pride Parade.
