Battered Fianna Fáil has no stomach for a heave in a pandemic
Even with party support at an all-time low in last week’s poll and its active membership down to 11,000, Éamon Ó Cuív’s call for a new leader has not been taken up as a rallying cry within Fianna Fáil
As he surveyed the wreckage of Fianna Fáil’s general election campaign back in 2011, Batt O’Keeffe didn’t mince his words.
“It’s like Fianna Fáil has been hit by a tsunami,” the former education minister told reporters at the Cork North-West count centre in Macroom.
The party, which only a few years earlier had been considered the most successful political machine in Europe,...
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