Leo Varadkar
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born 18 January 1979, Eric Varadkar (v.-RAD-k?r) is an Irish Gael politician who has served as Taoiseach, Minister of Defense, and Head of Fine Gael since June 2017.
Since 2007, he has served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency. Varadkar was born in Dublin and studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin.
He spent many years as a non-consultant hospital doctor, before moving to general practice in 2010.
He joined Fine Gael in 2004 and became a member of Fingal County Council, later serving as Deputy Mayor.
For the first time in 2007, he was elected to Dáil Éireann.
Kenny served as Minister of Social Protection from 2014 to 2017, and Minister for Transport, Tourism, and Sport from 2011 to 2014, before retiring in May 2017.
Varadkar stood in the leadership race to replace him, though many of his fellow constituents voted for his replacement, Simon Coveney, who was elected by a wide margin among members of the Oireachtas and was elected as the head on June 2nd.
Varadkar was elected Taoiseach and became the youngest person to hold office at 38 years old on the 2015 same-sex referendum, becoming the first Irish minister to do so.
He is Ireland's first and the world's fourth openly gay head of government in modern times.
He is also the first Taoiseach of Indian origins.
Early life
Varadkar, the third child and only son of Ashok and Miriam (née Howell) Varadkar, was born on January 18, 1979, in Dublin's Rotunda Hospital. His father was born in Bombay (now Mumbai, India) and went to the United Kingdom in the 1960s to work as a doctor. While working as a nurse in Slough, his mother, born in Dungarvan, County Waterford, met her future husband. They married in the United Kingdom in 1971. They lived in Leicester, where Sophie, the eldest of their three children, was born. The family then migrated to India before settling in Dublin, where their second child, Sonia, was born in 1973.
Varadkar attended the St Francis Xavier national school in Blanchardstown and later The King's Hospital, a Church of Ireland secondary school in Palmerstown. He began attending Young Fine Gael during his secondary schooling. He was accepted to Trinity College Dublin (TCD), where he briefly read the Constitution before moving to the School of Medicine. He served as Vice President of the Young Fine Gael branch of TCD, the European People's Party's youth group, of which Fine Gael is a member. Varadkar was accepted into the Washington, D.C., for students from Ireland's Vietnam Program for Service and Leadership (WIP), a half-year personal and professional growth course.
He graduated in 2003 after completing his internship at KEM Hospital in Mumbai. He spent many years as a non-consultant hospital doctor in St. James' Hospital and Connolly Hospital before specialising as a general practitioner in 2010.
Personal life
Varadkar, the first Irish government leader of partially Indian origins, has visited India on several occasions, and has visited India on several occasions. He completed his medical internship at KEM Hospital in Mumbai, his father's hometown.
Varadkar talked openly about being gay in an interview on RTÉ Radio on January 18th (his 36th birthday) for the first time: "It's not something that identifies me." I'm not a half-Indian politician, or a doctor politician or a gay activist for that matter. It's just part of who I am; it doesn't identify me; it is a part of my identity, I suppose." Varadkar, a leading proponent of the same-sex marriage referendum, was a leading supporter of the same-sex marriage referendum. Matthew Barrett, his partner, is a doctor at Mater Misericordiae University Hospital.
Varadkar completed a course in professional Irish and created de Varad, an Irish language variant for his surname. "My intention in getting Irish is just to talk about it," he said.Speak Irish!
It's not about getting it right; it's about having fun and making an effort to write it."Early political career
Varadkar, a twenty-year-old medical student at the time, was unsuccessful in the 1999 municipal elections in the Mulhuddart local electoral area. Varadkar was co-opted to Fingal County Council in 2003, as a replacement for Sheila Terry. He received the nation's first-preference vote in 2004, with 4,894 votes and was elected on the first count.
Varadkar was elected to Dáil Éireann in 2007 as a Fine Gael TD for the Dublin West constituency. Enda Kenny, the Opposition's Top Spokesperson, was named on the Front Bench as Spokesperson for Enterprise, Trade, and Employment until he reshuffled in 2010. Varadkar was re-elected to Dáil Éireann in 2011, garnering 8,359 first-preference votes (a 19.7% share of the vote in a four-seat constituency).