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Leo Varadkar finally proclaimed that he is the Tánaiste, not the Taoiseach, this week.
Five months have passed since Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin took the reins as Leo Varadkar’s Taoiseach.
Varadkar served as a Taoiseach for three years, from June 2017 to June this year.
But people have not been able to get out of their heads that Leo is gone and Micheál is inside.
And this week he went to another level when three of the four Dáil leaders who questioned him during the leaders’ questions on Thursday called him on his old title.
Taoiseach, Taoiseach, Taoiseach we heard, first from Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty, then from Labor leader Alan Kelly and then again from Bríd Smith from Solidarity / People Before Profit.
And it wasn’t another half hour before independent Clare TD, Michael McNamara called him Taoiseach instead of Tánaiste once again.
Finally, Mr. Varadkar moved to try to nail it once and for all when he told the Dáil shortly before lunchtime: “I am definitely the Tánaiste and I am happy to confirm it for anyone who has not solved it by now. . “
But it’s been going on for months, with reporters, TV hosts, and even the new Taoiseach himself, Mr. Martin for clarity, calling the old Taoiseach ‘teesh’ on occasion.
And you can be sure that it will happen again, and sometimes when the two of you are in the same room, it will be necessary to ask, “Could the real Taoiseach stand up?”
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