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Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Micheál Martin faces a room of unhappy backbenchers amid rumblings of a leadership change, criticisms of election strategy and campaign trail decisions. In the run-in, some have questioned whether Martin will remain leader when he hands the Taoiseach’s chair to Fine Gael. Grievances are aired – particularly about over-centralisation of decision making – and the leadership makes grave commitments to change, to take on board the criticism and to learn while leading the party forward. The meeting takes absolutely ages as members of the parliamentary party have their contributions.
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