Taoiseach Micheál Martin will try to quell criticism of him from within Fianna Fáil at a party meeting on Wednesday evenint. Photograph: Colin Keegan, Collins, Dublin.
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It’s a case of out of the budgetary frying pan, into the backbenchers’ line of fire for the Taoiseach today.
Micheál Martin has spent much of this week balancing his budgetary duties with damage control after the implosion of the Jim Gavin presidential campaign – and now has to face his suddenly-restive backbenchers at the weekly meeting of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party at on Wednesday evening.
There was no shortage of criticism – both on and off the record – for the Taoiseach and his deputy Jack Chambers yesterday over the fiasco.
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