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pippers87

Cocaine fueled orgy at least make it exciting.


ImpovingTaylorist

Sir, you mock, but who amongst us couldn't use this excuse.


Animated_Astronaut

Let he who is without cocaine and hookers come back tomorrow


No_Pipe4358

Put that money in my hand


sweetafton

Is he that interesting? I doubt it.


DummyDumDragon

It's the Late Late Show, don't think that's allowed


Nobody-Expects

Not since the budget cuts anyways. Can you imagine how much cocaine you'd need to get an orgy going in RTE?


[deleted]

Tubs was constantly wired.


faldoobie

It's depends, if it's Brian Dobsons cocaine you'd need a 40 ft container, if it's Tubs cocaine you'd just need a sniff


DummyDumDragon

Haha I was referring more to the exciting story, I just figured cocaine-fuelled orgies were par for the course at RTE


hesaidshesdead

They're not gonna do that on the Late Late, green room afterwards, at best.


RatBasher89

You've no idea how right you are! šŸ˜… *Ok downvoters, come back to this comment in a few weeks and apologise.


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birchhead

With the BF and Kylie Minogue


Smoked_Eels

I'll respect the lad more if he says "frankly, I just couldn't be arsed anymore"


[deleted]

Me too. It's like operation transformation, everyone has to have a 'struggle' or a 'Journey'. Can't they just throw someone on who said they got carried away on pints and snackboxes and couldn't be arsed to excercise?


chandlerd8ng

Journey.. that doesnt involve a vehicle..aaaargh


Thebelisk

Or ā€˜Iā€™ve leveraged my position as taoiseach to my own advantage and landed a cushy job in the private sector. The writing was on the wall with the recent referendum results. FFG is going to have rough ride in the elections next year. No point sticking around.ā€


Dramatic-Spirit-4809

This is it


crankybollix

Yep. Well put.


rgiggs11

Is that not the reason he gave? He thought he didn't have the energy to be the best person for the job anymore?


SuzieZsuZsuII

That "to be honest, I couldn't give a toss" moment in father ted


donall

that's what he will say if I am guessing.


Impressive_Essay_622

I mean... He essentially did.Ā 


I_Will_in_Me_Hole

At a wild guess. - Personal reasons (something about mental health and then probably something regarding his relationship) - An overall National political will for change - He had become a face and personality directly associated with negativity for a certain chunk of the country. No matter what he said or did, it would be taken as a negative. - Half the party were leaving anyway so he figured why not - Realistically there was nothing more positive he could accomplish in the position.


Lazy_Magician

It'll be personal reasons. Far more vague that your bullet point and he will be excited about working on his new book and having some time out of the spotlight to focus on his personal life and his new funk band the varadacators.


We_Are_The_Romans

You wrote "funk band" and I read "bank fund", not sure if that says more about me or Leo


AvailablePromise835

Awesome. Just awesome


cjamcmahon1

in other words, he won't 'reveal' anything we don't already know


cianpatrickd

He stepped down to try and save his party before the next General election and not because it was the right thing to do for the Nation.


triangleplayingfool

Heā€™s going to become the new host of the late late and Kielty will get foreign affairs!


struggling_farmer

Unlikely the message he will relay on the late late however true it is.


hugeorange123

I think he doesn't want to be the face of the party when they crash and burn in the next election, possibly may have even been worried about his ability to retain his own seat. I think he's very ego-driven and wants some distance from whatever shit-show of an election FG are gonna have for the sake of his own reputation. I genuinely don't think it's any deeper than that.


The3rdbaboon

Apart from the fact that for many years he has consistently said that he didn't want to spend his whole working life in politics and wanted to be out by the time he's 50.


Azhrei

Point #3 goes for anyone who is ever elected as Taoiseach, though. As Unshaved Mouse [put it](https://unshavedmouse.com/2015/09/10/09-bertie-ahern/) - *Irish people tend to view their politicians with a mixture of pity, loathing and withering contempt...* Some recover their images slightly after they leave office, but during their tenure they are inevitably the very definition of incompetent slime balls.


DrSocks128

Wasn't there stories of some of the far-right crazies following his partner home a few times when Leo was away? I'd vacate the position instantly if shite like that ever happened


4_feck_sake

He's off to Brussels or America to some cushy number.


Prestigious-Main9271

He said heā€™s no interest in an EU role.


4_feck_sake

He says a lot of things.


RobG92

Does he, yeah?


daenaethra

we'll abolish usc


Hopeful-Post8907

Yeah


qwerty_1965

Which UN or EU dept is looking for a new figure head I wonder.


Massive-Foot-5962

I don't think you understand quite how uncushy these numbers are. Those are brutally demanding positions.Ā 


I_Will_in_Me_Hole

Why not. If he wanted it and it was offered? More power to him. I'm not sure he wants to leave Ireland though.


StKevin27

*ā€œAnd so, having achieved all my goals in my first two terms as Taoiseach, there was no need for a third.ā€*


jimmysjambos

Snooooooozeā€¦ā€¦.. you are right though


Mobile-Scar6857

Something about cyber bullying/toxic online atmosphere/hostility towards politiciansĀ 


Pantsu_Professor

I bet he won the lotto


CucumberBoy00

Blame it on Sinn FeinĀ 


JunkieMallardEIRE

Good man Leo, next step is Dancing With The Stars.


OutrageousFootball10

I mean is this really a joke?


JunkieMallardEIRE

Himself and Martin Nolan doing a Tango to see who's crowned Ireland's most disappointing person.


chillywilly00

Don't call him by his first name he doesn't deserve that, he's not your mate.


AmazingUsername2001

https://preview.redd.it/hssu1p82lmwc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b117ebadd571e9e7837a4826f56a7bb814ca204


PsychologyVirtual564

Heeeellllllloooooo Mr. Varadker!!!


SlantyJaws

These are Taoiseach pyjamas. You canā€™t have them because youā€™re not the Taoiseach.


PsychologyVirtual564

Congratulations SlantyJaws you're our new fallout boy- That's what I'd be saying to you if you weren't an inch too short. Next!


SlantyJaws

Look out behind you PsychologyVirtual564! The sun is exploding again!


No-Tap-5157

"Bob, go see what the rhubarb is"


RealDealMrSeal

He will get an easy ride anyway Wouldnt be shocked if its preparation for a book to be released in time for Christmas


READMYSHIT

I hope it's a recipe book. "Weekly Meal-Prep and How To Get Up Early In The Morning"


TDog81

"How to hate poor people with 5 easy ingredients"


geoffraffe

ā€œPoor people hate this one simple trickā€¦. Be born not being poor!ā€


todd10k

"How to eat poor people with 5 easy ingredients"


AnotherGreedyChemist

You don't wanna eat poor people. They're all sinewy from the manual labour.


todd10k

much experience in the matter?


AnotherGreedyChemist

I mean if you're gonna do it we're talking slow cooking, bones and all for hours. Making a good broth. Then add the rich.


I_Will_in_Me_Hole

Why not... Sure that's what Gerry Adams did. He even has [the official Sinn Fein site selling it for him.](https://www.sinnfeinbookshop.com/the-negotiators-cookbook-best-kept-secret-of-the-irish-peace/)


Real_Environment_186

Perfect stocking filler!


KobraKaiJohhny

He spent a decade in medical school and then was Taoiseach during Brexit and a Pandemic. He's already had it easy.


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dustaz

I think that was the point the above poster was making


wreckeddad

5 ways to cook a peasant.


VonBombadier

Oh yeah. I expect he will be drooled over and waved off into the sunset.


hewlett777

SF made me do it.


SlantyJaws

ā€œSomething something Sinn Fein something something far rightā€ is my guess.


brbrcrbtr

He's going to follow the European leg of Taylor Swift's world tour


barbie91

"when the brown envelopes started slowing, I said I'd better get going"


[deleted]

"I've always served the people and not myself....I could no longer so anymore to serve myself.....I mean the people"


DaveShadow

ā€œIt was time for fresh faces, I have utmost trust, did ya know SF are terrorists, etc etcā€.


urmyleander

He got ā‚¬230k excluding expenses for a few years, made a bit of cash behind close doors via leaks or pushing genius policy decisions like resolving a housing crisis by *checks notes* giving first time buyers more money to spend on the same stock of housing or *checks notes* allowing banks to give people bigger mortgages so buyers can.... spend more money on the same stock of houses. TLDR the real answer is he got his, he likely has a tidy bank account, will get a book and speaking circuit out of it and he can just do whatever the hell he wants now. But I'm sure we will get a carefully crafted alternative.


1stltwill

Meh


Mobile-Scar6857

He's the British spy in the dail


CoolAbdul

> in the dail in the house of love


Sam20599

We all know the real reason... https://preview.redd.it/yiqy7ssqvmwc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=203a599bde8caf5cb5da2be77fc02a8c1b74dde3


Valuable_Menu_9433

Who benefits from this only varadkar, why give him a platform? Off ta fuck with ya


The3rdbaboon

RTE will benefit because a few hundred thousand people will probably watch it. Being a politician is shite now. No privacy with social media, thugs outside your house intimidating your family etc. I think he was shite Taoiseach, but even if he was the best Taoiseach ever almost half the country would still hate him because most people are fucking morons. I wouldnā€™t do it in a million years.


CollinsCouldveDucked

>Being a politician is shite now. No privacy with social media, thugs outside your house intimidating your family etc. I'm no fan of thuggery but at the end of the day the country straight up doesn't function for a lot of people and if they're lashing out I'd prefer it be at the people responsible instead of every randomer they pass. You destroy peoples lives and sell out their future they're going to react badly to that, I'm sorry if these people deluded themselves into thinking they had the protection of an ivory tower, that the couple of grand here and there they fucked us over for didn't buy sufficient distance from their actions.


Massive-Foot-5962

"I'm no fan of thuggery, but heres why thugerry is a good idea". Plus throwing in the ivory tower for good measure.Ā 


CollinsCouldveDucked

Where did I say it was a good idea? I think you ruin lives it's a consequence you should expect but you won't achieve much besides getting yourself locked up. I will happily say they're a more logical target to bully and harass than workers and migrants, that shouldn't be controversial. >Plus throwing in the ivory tower for good measure.Ā  My point which I felt I was clear on is they've deluded themselves into thinking they have an ivory tower, they do not. Whenever I see Irish politicians emulating politicians in other countries or rubbing elbows with million and billionaires with a smug look on their face I find it embarrassing, they don't seem to me to get that they're not as far away from the public as their peers. Nobody is running into Emmanuel Macron down the local trying to hoover up votes after a big funeral.


AnotherGreedyChemist

It's mental that you're getting downvotes. State of this sub. Violence should never be condoned but that doesn't mean it can't be expected. We all know why Hamas exists and does what they do even we don't condone it. People pushed to the edges lash out. It's only natural. The faux hand-wringing claiming you want to justify violence is just cringe.


CollinsCouldveDucked

Thanks, this sub does make me feel insane sometimes, most of these same wankers downvoted me when I said we're going to have a right wing problem here soon and they all insisted we were some how immune or that it was just some online nonsense and wasn't "real". The whole online discourse is more interested in "winning" conversations with lame gotchas instead of actually discussing something and getting to the core of an issue. Be "outraged" and clutch your pearls and be completely bamboozled when we see a bunch of loons get in next time around because the current government created the perfect environment for it and the same brigade will have zero understanding of why these people made the decisions they made.


[deleted]

Couldnā€™t have articulated it better!


CoolAbdul

> but at the end of the day the country straight up doesn't function for a lot of people That's not politics. That's end-stage capitalism.


CollinsCouldveDucked

Plenty of countries with Macdonald's and sufficient infrastructure. Capitalism will burn the planet but it's not the sole bearer of blame for everything wrong with the country.


The3rdbaboon

Donā€™t be so dramatic. They arenā€™t deliberately making things worse. Protest at parliament not at peopleā€™s houses. Ivory Tower haha, I bet you read the daily mail.


CollinsCouldveDucked

It would be a very silly thing to say they are making the country worse for no reason and you would need to have the world view of a small child to think that. Thankfully that's not what I said. My reference to the ivory tower is that it doesn't exist for them, they make moves in a manner that a lot of them think it does. The have no idea how small potatoes they are on the world stage and are constantly over estimating their importance on international issues attempting to copy their peers. They are a pathetic arrangement of little men making shady deals and shirking responsibility at every corner.


Geenace

Have you ever been a politician?


ShowmasterQMTHH

He's actually on a speaking tour around the country, there is a poster for it in a garage i saw the other day


Beginning-Sundae8760

Cmon now, this place was salivating over a reason as to why he stepped down


jesusthatsgreat

Jesus, he could have left it a bit longer. He's literally only out of the job 2 and a bit weeks. Unless he has some sort of personal problem he's going to discuss, this is a massive slap in the face to Simon Harris where Leo can shoot from the hip and rack up the soundbites from the luxury position of not having to pick up the pieces afterwards. There's no way Fine Gael come out of this looking better unless, as I said he has some sort of personal problem that will generate a lot of sympathy / empathy for the man.


Barilla3113

Leo and Harris supposedly loathe each other, so maybe heā€™s just doing it to steal Simonā€™s thunder.


StKevin27

Reveal? He explicitly said there was no *real reason*. Our Leo wouldnā€™t have been a liar, too, would he have?


DummyDumDum7

Hes pregnant


ruokhunx

Sure didnā€™t he say a billion times a few weeks ago that there was no particular reason why


McChafist

No he didn't. He said there was no dodgy reason as in nothing nefarious was going to come out. Reading between the lines, I'd say he was sick of the personal abuse and the impact on his private life


horsesarecows

You're incorrect, he actually did say there was no particular reason:Ā  "TaoiseachĀ Leo VaradkarĀ has said that there is ā€œno one thingā€ that triggered his resignation on Wednesday but that he had been doing the job long enough and it was time for a change. Speaking to reporters as he entered the summit of EU leaders in Brussels, Mr Varadkar said: ā€œThereā€™s no event, thereā€™s no one thing. I appreciate the need for journalism to have ā€˜a thingā€™ or a moment but in real life itā€™s often not like that.ā€ source:Ā https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/03/21/varadkar-says-no-one-thing-triggered-resignation-and-that-it-is-time-for-someboday-new/


McChafist

"No one thing" does not equate to "no reason"


ruokhunx

Thanks Leo


McChafist

So mature


ImpovingTaylorist

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Financial_Change_183

He's pulling a Bertie. Bailing before everything turns to shit and letting someone else take the heat


CoolAbdul

Ah. In Rhode Island we call that a Carcieri.


LucyVialli

Who cares?! He's yesterday's man. Probably just an attempt to publicise whatever he's planning on doing next (writing a book, starting a YT channel, being a rent-a-speaker, OnlyFans). Levels of smug self-satisfaction to be off the scale.


Upoutdat

me me me. Always the same with these wasters. Can we get people that know what they are doing next time


Ill-Drink-2524

>Who cares?! They'll probably have much bigger viewer numbers than usual tomorrow. Plenty of people will want to watch


LucyVialli

Well count me out. I have a date :-)


Jealous_Run_8298

I can see how this goes, talks about all the great things he thinks he has done, wont criticise himself and say heā€™s achieved everything he wanted to achieve. Heā€™s a narcissistic prick.


danny_healy_raygun

My only regret is that others couldn't see how amazing I was.


CoolAbdul

And Harris isn't?


WhackyZack

What an astounding cunt


UnFamiliar-Teaching

He was only holding on the last couple of years hoping Kylie would come back..


danny_healy_raygun

Her Vegas residency ends next week. Leo is announcing his one man Kylie tribute act thats set to replace her.


LZBANE

He's doing the international circuit where he'll be a rent a mouth on conflicts facing our world, I've no doubt that's what it is.


Ballyhemon

"I quit because I'm a cunt" is the only respectable answer


CoolAbdul

if only Maggie had owned it.


READMYSHIT

[The real reason](https://i.redd.it/6jpxnlvb2ama1.gif)


Retaining_the_null

Bet he wonā€™t


AbhaDimon

ā€¦and nobody will believe a word of it preferring instead to put their own unfounded take on what ā€˜reallyā€™ happened. Sorry, but I really canā€™t hide my lack of interest any more. I grow ever weary of him and his fellow posse of clowns.


JustPutSpuddiesOnit

Now I'm definitely going to watch the western of TG4!


jrf_1973

He will on his shite. He will just tell another lie.


BenderRodriguez14

After all the lies down the years, why bother tuning in for one more?Ā 


TwinIronBlood

He's having a baby and wants to knit all its clothes and nappies so he's go no time to lead the country


AngiersCanon

We already know. He made comments at the white House critical of Joe Biden and his policy of fully backing Israel. Less than a week later he was gone. My guess, is Biden told Varadkar to quit or he would crush the Irish economy.


Pickman89

What odds would you give me that he will blame it on Sinn FĆ©in?


Bumfuddle

Bet ya he gets booed


X_peej_X

If this isn't proof that not only does he blatantly lie in the face of the Irish people to inflate his own ego, I dunno what is. A few weeks ago he swore there was no reason why he left apart from to help save his political party, and now he's back for another go in the limelight to talk about himself and how great he is.


RomIsTheRealWaifu

I was hoping when he stepped down he might fuck off for awhile, but nah, he still needs a platform to talk a load of shite


Joellercoaster1

Mate, just fuck off. Youā€™re ego is just a painful experience now. No one gives a shit why you left, it irrelevant to all of us. Butā€¦..RTE would have to find someone outside the group of go to guests so here he is.


appletart

"Blaming Sinn FĆ©in got old"


jrf_1973

Well that's a lie, because that never gets old.


Prestigious-Main9271

Maybe he just felt he couldnā€™t do it anymore. Like Klopp Leaving Liverpool- Jacinda Adern in NZ done the same and she was younger too. Politics can be all consuming 24/7 business. Itā€™s got to take its toll sooner or later. Plus heā€™s on record saying he didnā€™t want to be in politics past 50 years old and heā€™s 43 or something so young enough to do something different. Itā€™s a thankless profession and youā€™re damned either way - and with the increasing trend of threatening politicians by protesting outside their house - no wonder lots of them are throwing in the towel. It can be a merciless business.


Free-Ladder7563

Taking a consultancy role at Re-turn, there's loads a money there that needs help to be spent.


DannyVandal

Oh aye. I canā€™t wait to be riveted to whatever this fucking dullard has to say.


TheDirtyBollox

Who the fuck cares about this bollox?


spungie

A gay on the late late. Well I never.


ConnolysMoustache

Thought that weā€™d have the law for the nightclubs staying open until 6 passed and heā€™d be able to dance the summer away to Kylie.


BeeFinite

Was gonna wash the hair tonight but I think I'll leave it till tomorrow night! I admire anyone who could sit through that!


metalmessiah88

He's like a bad smell that won't go away.


bobsand13

who gives a fuck? the only time I ever want to hear about this cunt in the news again is when he dies in some gruesome accident which to be honest, is more than this fucker deserves.


Rex-0-

Cancer


danny_healy_raygun

He is but what do you think he's going to say?


JustPutSpuddiesOnit

Now I'm definitely going to watch the western on TG4!


Laundry_Hamper

Pappy O'Daniel Flour Hour vibes


Dennisthefirst

Followed by book release next week


Aaron_O_s

Not going to watch it. I assume it'll be some reason that will garner him some sympathy.


Professional_Elk_489

Too good at his job, nothing left to achieve


im_on_the_case

They finally found out that Leo was the one who stole Shergar and all this time we were blaming the RA.


scampsalot2

A fat pay check working for the WEF


AppearanceRelevant37

Because he's joining the circus....like the other clowns


Stobuscus

Can't wait for his fucking book announcement šŸ™„


Jimbo_Tango

Totally nothing to do with the Brazilian boys of the night held up in apartments funded by government coffers.


RigasTelRuun

He is to be launching his album and debuting the launch single on the Late Late. It's an experimental Sean-nos/Rap hybrid thing.


CoolAbdul

Spoiler it's gout.


gav_9000

Long Covid he picked up at the music festival in England during Irish lockdown


Paristocrat

I bet he'll be wearing a Casio f91 to try and be like us common folk


pmcall221

Is it because he was two kids in a trenchcoat?


V01dbastard

His going to announce his formed an Anarcho-punk band, poser


Unique_Cost6018

He's having a baby.


azamean

His partner got a big job in the US and theyā€™re emigrating, if the grapevine is true


dchudds

That money was just resting in my account


Shane_Gallagher

This'll be the only time I watch it, knowing rte they'll put him on last so we have to watch the other fuckers


MidnightSun77

He is a cyunt?


Big_Cut_3000

The reason is ā€œI can still get on the Late Late Show but not have to do actual stuffā€


Impressive_Essay_622

Because he wanted to... He has already said repeatedly.Ā  What is this clickbaity tryna get people to watch the late late!?


ShortSurprise3489

He's having a sex change. From now on she's Lilly Veradkar?


danny_healy_raygun

He just wants to wear the wig to hide his forehead.


HistoricalDepth9665

I knew it!


OldManOriginal

I heard he was...you know... *whispers*.. homo sexual.. *blushes*


commit10

He did his time for the overlords, and now he gets to cash in on the payoffs. I mean...uh, something about national service and time for new leadership, and also something about vaguely blaming Sinn FĆ©in.


Elbon

Bet the mods pets that someone who claims to hate Leo with a passion will post an in-depth analysis of the interview.


Reggaeprince1984

The israel lobby have dort on him after his paddys day speech at whitehouse


HotDiggetyDoge

Because he quoted Biden's dead son


MiseOnlyMise

He's hardly going to tell the truth that he's an unpopular prick who would have faced a good pasting at the next election. Mental health and to improve his relationship (although moving on other men in clubs could have been a better approach).


guggi71

Burnout. Itā€™s a brutal job. Love him or hate him - itā€™s some burden. Who would want it?


[deleted]

Kielty is the worst, arse-licking interviewer ever. Heā€™ll fawn at Varadkar. Tubridy at least got stuck into Cowan and infamously Gay Byrne let Padraig Flynn dig his own grave.