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Irish Mirror
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Clare McCarthy

Tanaiste Leo Varadkar opens up on coming out as gay and the 'very different' experience nowadays

Leo Varadkar has opened up about coming out as gay and how young people have a 'very different' experience nowadays.

The Tanaiste, who became Ireland’s youngest and first gay and mixed-race Taoiseach in 2017, admitted that when he first entered politics he may not have been fully aware of, or accepted, his sexuality.

The 43-year-old spoke to the Anton Savage Show on Newstalk about the "liberating" social change that has happened in Ireland over the past 20 years.

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