Republic of opportunity knocks

In this week's editorial, Dara Gantly wonders whether experience in medicine can maketh an Taoiseach. Now that prejudice has no hold in this Republic, I would like to make a plea to the wider Irish public not to hold the fact that Leo Varadkar held the MICGP qualification against him. To be honest, we don’t know what impact having a medical Taoiseach will be, let alone a leader aged 38 and openly gay. You might like to think that Health might get an extra look-in, but then that didn’t work out all that well when Drs Varadkar and James Reilly were…