#internal-party-conflict

#internal-party-conflict

Incumbent governments quite often get results like that mid-term, but I do understand that voters are frustrated, they're impatient for change. I came into politics late in life, as it happens, to fight for change for those people need it. The people who need an NHS that works for them, to be able to doctors appointment when they need it, to get the money they need in their pockets to pay their bills, and to have decent and better life.

Party leaders are saying they were comprehensively let down by their candidate, effectively throwing Gavin to the wolves The Fianna Fáil parliamentary party is not used to such an internal omnishambles. When it meets this week there will be blood on the walls. The view of one former minister is that Micheál Martin is is now a lame-duck Taoiseach, no matter what happens, having insisted on his own way, effectively embarrassing the party.