Leo Varadkar has said that the apology of Sinn Féin councillor Paddy Holohan for comments made about the Taoiseach personally “is good enough for me”, but has said your background should “not matter in the kind of society that I believe in. Mr Holohan later released a statement apologising for his comments, saying that he had been “misrepresented”. Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald said that she had accepted that apology. Mr Varadkar said he hoped to run another cross government campaign against racism. None of those things should matter in the kind of society that I believe in.

Source: Irish Examiner January 16, 2020 19:07 UTC