Who is Ireland's incoming Taoiseach and why did Varadkar resign?

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this political update, Naomi and Tim sum up the background of the incoming new Taoiseach Simon Harris and discuss the sudden resignation of Leo Varadkar and the different factors behind it. One of them was Ireland's two recent referendums aimed at changing some of the more Catholic-influenced conservative language in the 1937 constitution, which ended in a resounding defeat for the government. What were the proposed changes and why were they rejected by the public? Finally, we look ahead to the bonanza of elections that are due in the coming year, and how the different parties sit in the polls. What are your thoughts on the resignation of Leo Varadkar and the incoming Simon Harris? A bonus episode where we take listener questions is coming soon for supporters over on Patreon.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both to Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwarfad, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.4	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay. Hello, everyone and welcome to the Irish Passport podcast where today we are making a quick detour from our conquest series to talk about politics, what's going on in politics right now.
0:48.6	And we're doing that, Naomi, because basically, because of peer pressure, we have been receiving so many messages from people,
0:55.7	from listeners, and just from people that we've been talking to, asking us to explain what's
0:59.6	going on in Irish politics at the moment, because a few quite dramatic things have been going
1:04.8	down, actually, in the last few months. So let's take stock of them. There was two referendums,
1:10.7	right?
1:11.4	Yeah, so it's been a really eventful couple of weeks in Irish politics.
1:15.6	Two referendums were held.
1:17.5	The government's proposals were defeated comprehensively on both of them.
1:21.4	We'll explain a little bit about that later.
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