Budget 2018 will pass, but disquiet grows in Fianna Fail

Party is experiencing growing pains that may cause problems for Budget 2019

Fianna Fáil’s leader Micheál Martin

As Fianna Fáil prepares to sign off on the second of three budgets it agreed to pass under the confidence and supply deal with Fine Gael there is a growing feeling the party might not make it to the third.

Theemail row I revealed last Sunday between high-profile TDs Barry Cowen and John McGuinness can be easily dismissed as a personality clash between a pair of party big beasts. McGuinness is famously contrarian ...