Leo Varadkar resigns as Taoiseach

Crime is perceived as increasing across the country by the general public and the judiciary is percieved as soft, especially when dealing with repeat & youth offenders.

Therefore, the justice minister is hardly going to be perceived positivley by the electorate.

Whether you are a politician or in business, you're only ever as good as your last voter or customer.

Anyone who takes their voters or customers for granted is a fool. You deal with people when & where they are.

No hatred on my part whatsoever, but I dont see her running the country.

Are you aware as controversial as CH could be, the levels of improvement and prosperity he brought to the country…? The economy under his watch was a total success,

didn’t think Cowan was much use but if you put him next to Enda, Leo he did this country way less damage.

Haughey backed the IFSC, free travel scheme for the elderly, secured unprecedented EU funding for capital projects and a list of stuff that Varadkar couldn’t even contemplate matching that would improve the country and life for citizens here. The benefits are still being felt today.

Im no FF fan I haven’t any allegiance to a political party at all but my god if you suggest that Varadkar and Haughey should even be mentioned in the same breath….. Haughey made a positive impact overall and improved life for people here. You might not like the man and he certainly wasn’t whiter than white but the record showed he was a lot more positive than bad, Leo, just wasn’t up to it, a populist sound byte merchant and not a whole lot more…. The record has already been written, cannot be unwritten he was a poor Taoiseach and proven to be disingenuous in the manner he led. Didn’t listen to the electorate, Irish citizens who he treated in the most outrageously, off handed and ignorant manner….

You're deliberately conflating the issues of economic migrants who contribute little to the economy and legal migration who contribute a lot. You're also, deliberately, oversimplifying the issues with services in Ireland. Also, many migrants who apply for asylum here are arriving in Ireland after they have already gone through other safe countries. Ireland is not obligated to take in these people.

Have you given up a room to take in an asylum seeker or is it just the taxpayer you expect to take in every Tom, Dick and Harry? The do-gooders are rarely capable of any personal sacrifices.

Why do you keep repeating how many people live in Dublin? Can you not see the fallacy there?

You must be the type that sees 20 immigrants squeezed into a 2 bed flat then proudly proclaims that there is still room in the toilet.

Yes but not everybody could get work and unemployment and emigration was much higher.

I'm not saying housing is not a problem but please don't make out that the country is not in better shape than it was in the 80s and 90s. Almost everything is better.

What do people think is the reason(s) for Varadkar's resignation?

Strange timing, considering he isnt moving to another job...The referendum vote must have played a part, but how significant, given most people werent interested in the content of it anyway and didnt vote.

With SF sliding in the polls, do FG hope to ride the wave & expect a bounce in support from a leadership change?