Leo Varadkar Parents: Meet Ashok Varadkar, and Miriam Varadkar – Leo Varadkar attended Blanchardstown’s St Francis Xavier National School and Palmerstown’s The King’s Hospital, a Church of Ireland secondary school.
He was a member of Young Fine Gael during his secondary school years. He was admitted to Trinity College Dublin (TCD), where he studied law briefly before transferring to the School of Medicine.
He was a member of TCD’s Young Fine Gael branch and Vice-President of the Youth of the European People’s Party, the youth wing of the European People’s Party, of which Fine Gael is a member.
Varadkar was chosen for the Washington Ireland Program for Service and Leadership (WIP), a half-year personal and professional development program for Irish students in Washington, D.C.
After completing his internship at KEM Hospital in Mumbai, he graduated in 2003. He then worked as a non-consultant hospital doctor in St. James’s Hospital and Connolly Hospital for several years before becoming a general practitioner in 2010.
Leo Varadkar was twenty years old and a second-year medical student when he ran unsuccessfully in the Mulhuddart local electoral area in the 1999 local elections.
Varadkar was co-opted to Fingal County Council in 2003 as a replacement for Sheila Terry in the Castleknock local electoral area. He received the most first-preference votes in the country in the 2004 local elections, with 4,894 votes, and was elected on the first count.
Varadkar was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael TD for the Dublin West constituency in the 2007 general election.
Enda Kenny, then Leader of the Opposition, appointed him to the Front Bench as Spokesperson for Enterprise, Trade, and Employment until a reshuffle in 2010 promoted him to Spokesperson for Communications, Energy, and Natural Resources.
Varadkar was re-elected to Dáil Éireann in 2011 with 8,359 first-preference votes (a 19.7% share of the vote in a four-seat constituency).
He previously served as Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s Minister for Social Protection from 2016 to 2017, Minister for Health from 2014 to 2016, and Minister for Transport, Tourism, and Sport from 2011 to 2014.
On June 26, 2020, it was announced that Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, and the Green Party had agreed to form a coalition government, marking the first time the two Irish parties had worked together to form a government, including a rotation agreement in the offices of Taoiseach and Tánaiste.
On June 27, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin was appointed Taoiseach, with Varadkar named Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade, and Employment.
Leo Varadkar Parents: Meet Ashok Varadkar, and Miriam Varadkar
Leo Varadkar is Ashok and Miriam (née Howell) Varadkar’s third and only son. His father was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, and moved to the United Kingdom to work as a doctor in the 1960s.
It was during the time that she was working as a nurse in Slough was when his mother met her future husband. Her birthplace is Dungarvan, County Waterford. In early 1971, they married in the United Kingdom. Sophie, his eldest sister, was born in Leicester while the family was still living there. They lived in India for a while before moving to Dublin in 1973, where his other sister, Sonia, was born.
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