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01st Sep 2017

Leo Varadkar’s tweet about Princess Diana has upset a lot of Irish people

'Cop on Taoiseach'

Olivia Hayes

We bet he regrets this one.

As yesterday marked 20 years since Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris, many fans and celebs alike tweeted about the late icon.

And not to be left out, so did our Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar.

However, his tweet was met with much criticism, and he faced major backlash online for not mentioning a word about the homeless crisis in his own country.

Mr Varadkar wrote: “Still remember where I was the moment I heard Diana had died. Hard to believe it’s twenty years.”

And this is the reaction he received: