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19: Leo Varadkar: Ireland's Taoiseach on NATO, China, and Joe Biden

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The Relationship Between Politicians and Alcohol

I think it's absolutely fascinating because we struggle with all the time in practical politics there will be strikes of doctors strikes of teachers. One thing politicians get which very few people really get is the helicopter view of the whole the whole service if you like. As help minister for the first time in my life I grew up in medical family and worked in health care for seven years. A huge amount of violence in Ireland public order offenses violence against children sexual violence is linked alcohol a huge amount of long-term illness and we discount that. We also sometimes find it hard to socialize or have any sort of social occasion without the presence of alcohol. When I go to an Indian event almost always a family

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