Labour Special Report: The appetite for change is evident in grassroots of Ireland’s oldest party

The leadership issue has been put on the back burner before the general election but unless there is a positive result, the knives will be out for Brendan Howlin, writes Political Correspondent Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

As he sits in his cavernous office in Leinster House, Brendan Howlin is in a confident, in-control mood. Or at least he is trying his best to seem like it.