The expected delay in the review into Fianna Fáil’s disastrous presidential election has been met with disappointment by some within the party.
Fianna Fáil’s candidate, former Dublin football manager Jim Gavin, withdrew from election campaigning in early October after revelations that he owed a former tenant €3,300 in overpaid rent. Mr Gavin subsequently paid the tenant back.
His name remained on the ballot paper and the Fianna Fáil candidate got just 7.2 per cent of the vote.
Mr Gavin was the preferred candidate of party leader and Taoiseach Micheál Martin.
Critics in the party later accused
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