Cork East Fianna Fáil TD James O’Connor said it was clear that Jim Gavin (above) was very poorly advised over the last 48 hours of his presidential election campaign. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

A leading Fianna Fáil backbench TD has accused Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers of “the most unceremonious dumping on a party candidate in modern Irish political history”.

On the eve of what is expected to be a fractious parliamentary party meeting to discuss the dramatic withdrawal of Jim Gavin from the presidential election race, Cork East TD James O’Connor issued a long statement claiming Mr Martin and

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