Micheál Martin and Jim Gavin at the Ploughing Championships last month. Photograph: Ronan McGreevy
Micheál Martin has apologised and acknowledged the “hurt and shock” of Fianna Fáil members as he addressed his party on its disastrous presidential election campaign.
The Taoiseach is understood to have told a packed meeting of his parliamentary party how he was sorry for how things had turned out and was “devastated” by the situation.
The party’s candidate, former Dublin football manager Jim Gavin,
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