Making an ill-advised Clinton quip and ducking out of an important lunch with big multinational American investors in Ireland does not become an Taoiseach

Leo Varadkar made reference to Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky during a speech in Washington on Thursday

The art of the fauxpology has long been practised by politicians the world over, but what makes for a memorable political ‘sorry’? Is it rivers of tears, rending of pinstripe suits, abject language or just brazen chutzpah?

The saxophone that Bill Clinton famously tooted on the campaign trail in 1992 is now up for auction