The difficulty with being very vocal once you leave office for an ex-politician is that you have a track record, and this presents a particular problem for Leo Varadkar in his social media spat with rap group Kneecap about their plans to visit Cuba this week as part of an “international solidarity group” in the face of US blockade.
Posting on social media on Monday, Kneecap highlighted their imminent trip and the fact that they’re bringing “over 200kg of critical medicines”, adding that “as the Taoiseach heads to Washington to shake the hand of a war monger, we’ll be in Cuba where the island is being strangled and starved by the man who’ll be handed shamrock”.
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