Critics have rounded on the Irish taoiseach after the government’s crushing defeat in a dual referendum, accusing him of overseeing a lacklustre campaign that was rushed out of a “gimmicky” desire to make voting coincide with International Women’s Day. Politicians and commentators said on Sunday that Leo Varadkar bore serious responsibility for the bungled attempt to change outdated references to family and women in the Irish constitution. Voters repudiated the family referendum with 67% voting “no” and buried the care referendum in an even bigger, historic landslide of 74%, margins that shocked the political establishment. The family amendment had proposed widening the definition of family from a relationship founded on marriage to “durable relationships” such as cohabiting couples and their children. The care amendment had proposed replacing a reference to a “mother’s duties in the home” with a clause recognising care provided by family members. The three ruling parties, Varadkar’s Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Greens, alongside the main opposition parties plus a host of non-governmental organisations, had all campaigned for a “yes, yes” …