Leo Varadkar to feature in RTÉ travel show

Leo Varadkar was photographed working with a film crew in a remote part of South Africa last month.
Leo Varadkar to feature in RTÉ travel show

Former taoiseach Leo Varadkar has revealed he will feature in a travel-related television programme due to air on RTÉ later this year.

Speaking to The Irish Times at a road safety event in Galway on Friday, Mr Varadkar said he had been working on “a few different things” since he departed politics in April 2024.

“You will hear about in due course. It’s a travel-related TV programme. It’s only one episode, not multiple. I enjoyed doing it. I enjoyed working with a crew,” he said.

Mr Varadkar was photographed working with a film crew in a remote part of South Africa last month.

He said RTÉ told him the show would air “in April or September but it’s looking more like September”.

On April 10th, Mr Varadkar will begin a new position at Washington-based PR firm Penta, whose clients include Google, Microsoft and JP Morgan.

Mr Varadkar said he would dispense “strategic advice” to Penta clients, “on how to manage all the interesting things that are now happening in the world”.

Separately, since he left the Dáil Mr Varadkar said he has been hired to do “fireside chats”, which he said had replaced the after-dinner speaker circuit for former world leaders.

“I did one for CNBC in India and Bank of America in Dubai. There’s only a few of them a year but it’s interesting,” he said.

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