Il leader del Fianna Fáil Micheál Martin si lega a Holly Cairns per il sostegno pubblico, mostra un sondaggio

Poor Holly… 😢

I’m sure Holly Cairns is a lovely person in real life. But she doesn’t strike me as a person that could tell a pet interest group no, or would hold-up well dealing with trade offs when dealing with a complex brief like Finance or Justice for instance.

In fact, that’s a lot of the Soc Dems. All good when armed with an Instagram account in opposition, but when the finger wagging and scolding is coming from the opposite direction, I think they’ll suffer the same fate as Eamon Gilmore’s Labour. A man that got elected on a slogan, and knew he couldn’t fulfil it when the bald facts of the national situation were presented to him and the electorate couldn’t forgive the initial slogan as opposed to digesting the reality.

Edit: noting the downvotes, I knew it wasn’t going to be a popular opinion. But think of this: there are very very few political savants and genuine reformers that perform major surgery on our political economy. They usually come around once in a generation and are extremely strong characters. Lemass was probably one (backed by the greatest civil servant we ever had in Whittaker), and he did that in confines of accepting a very difficult economic reality and facing down dug-in vested interests. Holly and the Soc Dems ain’t it.

im not exactly obsessed with holly but how tf does micheál tie with HER, like who actually in this day and age supports micheál

The mind boggles as to how this man gets any support outside of his own party’s supporters.

Meaningless click bait. Having 1 equally popular person in a party doth not make a parlimentary majority and thus irrelevant