wailed the local organisation, though Fianna Fáil Senator Malcolm Byrne’s analysis showed that, outside of Dublin and Cork, the county best represented in Cabinets since the 1920s is . It is also a sorry commentary on the state of Fianna Fáil, government or no government. This is not just the chronic indiscipline that Fianna Fáil TDs have displayed in opposition; it is the every-man-for-himself behaviour of a pack of looters. Unless Fianna Fáil pulls itself together, it has no hope of withstanding the challenges it will face in government. Mara was a creature of the old Fianna Fáil which was serious about one thing above all: power.

Source: The Irish Times July 10, 2020 18:15 UTC