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SOCIAL PROTECTION MINISTER and Leo Varadkar has told Fianna Fáil’s Willie O’Dea to “chill” after O’Dea took a swing at the Social Protection Minister’s upcoming cameo as an RTÉ radio presenter.
Someone at Fianna Fáil dusted off the photoshop skills with this frankly stunning interpretation of Varadkar, after it was announced that he’s been asked to fill in on a Christmas broadcast of RTÉ’s Late Date.
O’Dea said in a statement that Varadkar has “crafted a role for himself as resident chat show panellist and a sort of celebrity political commentator” but when it “comes to actual political accountability and having a vision for the department he is responsible for, he is nowhere to be seen”.
Leo’s response?
Ouch. He’s stopped just short of shouting “YOU’RE SO EMBARRASSING DAD. GOD!”.
PS. Play Born Slippy Leo, good man.
Written by Emer McLysaght and posted on DailyEdge.ie
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I seem to remember a man who looked remarkably like Willie O’Dea behind the decks at a Rubberbandits gig at The Picnic six or seven years ago. He was pretty out of it, so maybe he’s forgotten, but he did a great job that night..
I see Hugh has made it back. In one form or another
If he’s taking requests I’m hoping there is a flood of them for him to do his job….
He’s back alright “SOCIAL PROTECTION MINISTER “and Leo Varadkar..so who is the Minster for social protection. .
@Fear Uisce: never left
There’s the problem,fg want to be celebrities,leo was never away from the camera when health minister.no wonder health services are in the gutter.this also shows RTE cosiness with fg,no wonder people are not getting the proper truth.
It’ll keep him off the telly
Touché
Is this the Willie O’Dea who has been writing a column praising himself on the Sindo for decades?
Me tinks the media are playing this for all it’s worth…it’s a non story.
@winston smith: I agree Leo isn’t worth the ink and paper this story is consuming.
Kerry, not sure about that but in general the public are interested in politicians lives outside of their regular jobs and what is the harm.
@winston smith: so apt…
“look at you in your leather jeans actin all normal like the rest of us” – adam n paul
@winston smith: Hardly. In a country with a very real and serious homeless and poverty crisis, and the one supposed to be taking care of, and ‘protecting’ those facing a cold, dark Christmas, is off doing a DJ nixer.
If it wasn’t so serious, it’d make for an outlandish sitcom.
Politicians and the state can’t solve ALL our problems and even those they can, not overnight…politics is a balancing act when we have limited resources. I am not homeless like the vast majority of people but I am working class, paying my way as best I can.
Ah I see panto season has started early.
Oh no it didn’t!
@: :-)
@Les Behan: Chilly Willie and the F.G. Beanstalk with Leo trying to climb it with his ladder?
Leo the limelight . Still won’t be PM Ever
One homeless person dies on the streets that week and that “graveyard shift” comment will really come back to haunt him…. Anyway I thought Leo was off to Canada….
Its a hard to believe that those people are running this country its fooking despicable stuff
The ridiculous right having a slap fight, and landing no political punches.
@simon o flaherty: brilliant
Leo, this country is crying out for qualified doctors, & your pissing around now trying to not only be an excuse of a politician, but now your trying this! Get a grip man, you left collage years ago, time to grow up & decide what you want to be!
I sumhow tink he was thought de difrents buteen your n you’re at collage do.
Seeing as we took zappone the phoney, can the US not take Leo? Fair is fair.
@Barra O Brien: Is she not an U.S. spy lol.
She’s Canadian
@michael walsh: So a Canadian working as an U.S. spy, I blame NAFTA… just joking ;)
Leo goes ‘Above and Beyond’
Leo thinks he’s some sort of rock star but he’s really just turning into a knob.
There is a media love in with varadkar probably because he’s gay the rte liberal crowd think that’s cool.
He’s a failed minister for Heath who’s only achievement of note was to make the blood supply marginally more risky.
How was that bozo ever allowed in to politics. Passed a bike Guard on Grafton St. just now trying to rouse a homeless guy who wasn’t moving and in a doorway, two people have died already this Winter on the streets and this clown has time to spin disks for the laugh. That’s Fine Gael all over – me fein and more about me.
Micky D was at Slane? God knows what music they play in the Dail bar? Who is there DJ anyway?
Should play, Slap my TD up… lol.
I’d say its “Money, Money, Money…..its a rich mans world”!
Wonder if Leo is planning to go to Ibiza to dee Jay? On a 3 year contract!
Willie could request ‘all the lies that I told you’
He may as well work for RTÉ Leo does nothing anyway.
What is Leo the minister for ?. I honestly don’t have a clue.
A government minister being a dj for self-publicity in his campaign to take over from Enda. Leo and Simon were vying earlier this year to give Councillors a pension, at our expense, so that they could each garner support for their leadership ambitions. Not a thought for the sick or God homeless!
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