What’s making you happy? Leo and Kylie, healthy dogs and chocolate surprises

Here’s what is making Irish Times readers happy this week

Grinning around:  Leo Varadkar and friends with Kylie Minogue at the singer’s gig at the 3Arena last year. Photograph: Tiernan Brady/Twitter
Grinning around: Leo Varadkar and friends with Kylie Minogue at the singer’s gig at the 3Arena last year. Photograph: Tiernan Brady/Twitter

Each week we ask what’s making Irish Times readers happy. You can join in by emailing happy@irishtimes.com or tweeting using #IrishTimesHappy. Here is a selection of the responses this week:

"Taoiseach wrote to Kylie Minogue to ask if he could welcome her to Ireland." This Irish Times headline is gas. 
– Sarah

Fostering two dying Salukis – cruelty cases – and bringing them back to good health and finding them a new home next week with a really lovely couple. That makes me very, very happy
– Tina

My favourite, much-missed chocolate shop Cocoa Atelier is popping up in Kildare Village from the 5th of April to the 30th of June. Sing hosannas!
– Roisin

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Just watched a WhatsApp clip of my beautiful 11-month-old grandniece Anna attempting to take her first steps.
– Pauline