Calleary: I’m Fianna Fáil, so of course I don’t trust Varadkar or Fine Gael

Fianna Fáil’s new deputy leader says the Taoiseach lacked courage while minister for health

Dara Calleary TD, deputy leader and director of policy development of Fianna Fáil Picture: Fergal Phillips

Dara Calleary thinks Frances Fitzgerald deserved to be removed as tánaiste, that Leo Varadkar lacks courage and ran away from the health crisis, and that neither the Taoiseach nor his party can be trusted. Offering his assessment of the nearly two-year-old confidence and supply arrangement with Fine Gael, he bluntly remarked: “We’ve identified problems, they do nothing about them.”

Yet sitting in his small Leinster House office last week, Calleary was just as ...