Leo Varadkar resigns as Taoiseach

Scrapping the hate speech bill would be good for them too.

The triumph of the incompetent.

An absolute pair of idiots. And the fact taxpayers money pay for them is criminal.

Yup - if they have sense. They should knuckle down and get back to basics. It’s damage limitation now. Nobody wants to be leader except harris. He is in for a serious 12 months until election time.

My money is on the good ol’ U S of A.

its a local election, not a national election

And whose definition is it of the word 'competent'? Yours?

In my lifetime or that of my parents, Ireland has not been in a better place than it is now; apart from maybe in the late 90s.

Any fool can pick holes and say, why cant they do this, why cant they do that.

And that is not to underplay the challenges in the economy or mistakes the government has made.

But there is no way you can look at this govt and say they have mis managed the economy, the way others in the past did, again and again.

The relevant question that punters like you wont answer, is - who would do better.

I'd be surprised if FG can muster even 20 seats in the next election. Dunno what they are playing at with allowing Harris to run uncontested.

There must be something big coming on the horizon and Harris is just saying f*ck it and taking a chance

Whatever one thinks of Harris’s credentials, absolute kudos for the desire/ambition, and balls to want the challenge.

Harris is literally in love with the “idea” of being Taoiseach - all of the trappings that go with it - he is going to get some rude awakening when he realises the mess Leo leaves behind for him to own...

Was talking about the Bunga Bunga parties. There was all sorts going on, aside from the "minor" thing.

Everyone knew it was happening, no one cared.

I think it is time people involved in politics and political parties copped on that the same old cr** they have fed the people aint washing anymore.

So now wondering why we have such a shyte health service, one that has had many multiple "systematic failures" (to use the civil service and political terminology) despite the amount of money being spent on it means we are deluded?

Is it delusion to wonder why we have waited so many years to have a new childrens hospital despite it now being the most expensive hospital in the world EVER?

I guess we are deluded when we wonder why ever Ahmed, Mohamed, Giorgi is allowed into the country and usually given hotel accommodation despite us not really knowing if there are their real names and the fact we have our own issues we are not solving first?

I guess it is delusional to think that two people in reasonably good professional jobs could ever afford to buy a half decent home somewhere near their work?

I guess it is delusional to think that grown working adults in their thirties should not have to live at home with their parents?

Politicians and political parties need to wake up and start offering results not fooking sound bytes and stop lambasting the people that elect them.

Donohoe, Humphreys, McEntee, Coveney have all ruled themselves out, that's the entire front bench.

Not even a competition. Sorry state of affairs really.

I wonder is it that no one wants to lead FG or no one wants to be Taoiseach? Almost seems as if Leo Varadkar pulled up the Ladder after he climbed it. #f**kthenextguy

All the FG TD rats scurring away from any responsibility and throwing Simon Harris under the bus......the coronation....

What a fùcking joke....

Gutless...the lot of them......Heather Humphries and her " family commitments"

What?....liars and cowards....

And this is precisely why a lot of the Western world is fooked.

Style over substance.