“Tuesday Is My Second Favourite Day”: 7 Revelations From Leo Varadkar’s Book

THE REVELATIONS from Leo Varadkar’s tell-all book could fill the Liffey, but Waterford Whispers News has narrowed down the breathless, thriller-like intrigue from his memoir to just 7 astonishing confessions.

Seek your GP’s permission before reading on as these factoids have been known to raise blood pressure:

1) Varadkar’s favourite hobby has seen him set up a YouTube channel where he categorises and ranks bread based on which variety produces the driest toast – his favourite meal. “Adding butter is a sin”.

2) The former Taoiseach shared the revelation of being diagnosed with socialhousingphobia, a debilitating condition which is a chronic fear of the building up the State’s housing supply. “I can go into shock if I see a State built house on public land,” he movingly writes.

3) He believes the British government spied on Ireland during Brexit negotiations. “Now people might find it hard to believe a country known for illegal surveillance, occupation, suspension of civil liberties and extra-judicial killings would do such a thing but that’s my hunch” wrote Varadkar.

4) “Neither” – Varadkar says when contemplating if he is a dog or a cat person.

5) “Call me crazy but Mondays just aren’t my bag, I love Wednesday specifically 10am when most people have lost the will to life on in the working week. Not me, I love it. Everyone picks the Friday or a weekend day but I’m more a Tuesday connoisseur”.

6) Varadkar admitted editing his Wikipedia. “You can’t just edit your own Wikipedia, I don’t know if you know that. I spent three years updating other Wikipedia entries until I gained enough trust among the Wiki editing community to edit my own under a pseudonym. I amended my entry to acknowledge that ‘Leo Varadkar is hench’. No one had added the fact I’d got seriously buff to my wiki and I feel it needed to be part of the official record. Tragically in the three years it had taken to pull off the great Wikipedia heist the word ‘hench’, known to describe a buff muscular physique, had gone completely out of usage in the English language so it just confused people who read it.”

7) In a particularly dark chapter, Varadkar admits to spending as much as €18 on special ringtones for his Nokia in 2004. “It was when you’d text a code and pay for them – it was the height of Crazy Frog mania, I’d lost my mind. Once I’d got a hit of Frog, before I knew it I had C’est La Vie, Thong Song and World of Our Own. During one ring tone ordering binge I caught sight of my reflection. I was horrified, I threw my phone out the window and went cold turkey. I haven’t ordered a custom ring tone since.”

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