Media banned from Mike Pence’s meeting with gay Irish PM Leo Varadkar.

Vice President Mike Pence and Leo Varadkar (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

A media ban has been put in place for a meeting between the USA’s notoriously anti-LGBT Vice President Mike Pence and Ireland’s PM Leo Varadkar.

Varadkar, who took office as Ireland’s Taoiseach (prime minister) last year, is one of the few openly gay world leaders.