Leo Varadkar will return as Irish prime minister on Saturday to again face the intractable housing crisis that cost him a full second term and made Sinn Fein clear favourites to unseat him in 2025.
Varadkar, prime minister from 2017 to 2020, will take over from Micheál Martin under a coalition deal struck between their two once sworn rival parties that will also see a new finance minister appointed and a likely change in the foreign office.
