Tánaiste row simmers on as FF support slides by 5%
As she left for the trade mission, party colleagues came to her defence and criticised the comments of John McGuinness, the sacked junior minister who told the Late Late Show she was not able to run the department.
This weekend he continued his broadside against Ms Coughlan, party leadership and the Government as a Sunday Business Post opinion poll showed support for Fianna Fáil had fallen 5% in a month, from 28%.
