First gay taoiseach, who won social-reform victories and proved wily amid Brexit, faced uncertain future
When Leo Varadkar was a teenager on a school trip to Northern Ireland he smuggled fireworks back into the republic to set off some illicit bangs – but it is only now that he has sent a boom echoing across Ireland.
At the age of 45, Ireland’s youngest – and first gay, and first mixed race – taoiseach is stepping down.
