Leo Varadkar's Clinton gaffe adds awkwardness to the shamroguery for the US visit

Awkwardness and a bit of shamroguery feature during Oval Office visit

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar meets President Joe Biden at the White House. Photo: Niall Carson/PA

Senan Molony

Call it the Revenge of the Interns. When Leo Varadkar and a mumbling Joe Biden had finished their brief remarks in the Oval Office, several young staffers sent up an Animal Farm-style chant: “Thank you, Press! Thank you, Press!”

A howl of questions went up in protest, journalists all shouting at once in a babble of noise, the two leaders looking bemused beneath a formal portrait of Franklin D Roosevelt, the frailest president before Uncle Joe.