Picture yourself floating in a boat on a river, rendered bright green by a tangerine dye
was badly upstaged. The box-office mismatch aside, the Taoiseach was also forced into uncomfortably proximity with a man who seems ever-more intent on justifying the nickname “Notorious”.Conor McGregor joins the St Patrick’s Day Parade in Chicago. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
Varadkar was diplomatic about the encounter afterwards. Asked how he felt about McGregor representingin the parade, he showed deft footwork, worthy of the fighter himself. McGregor was not representing Ireland, he said: “That’s kind of what I was doing.”Tourism Ireland This year the list included everything from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to Dubai’s Burj al Arab. But the piece de resistance, arguably, was the stuff by now under Varadkar, and all around him.
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