Ó Cuív: Decision to stay in FF is not black and white

Former Fianna Fáil deputy leader Éamon Ó Cuív said “it’s not a black-and-white certainty” that he made the right decision to stay in the party when he was silenced over the EU treaty referendum earlier this year.

His opposition to the fiscal compact treaty, which openly defied his party leader, Micheál Martin, has been “validated”, he believes, because there has been no progress in dealing with the nation’s bank debt.

In an interview with the Irish Examiner, Mr Ó Cuív — whose grandfather Éamon de Valera founded Fianna Fáil — said he faced “a very difficult choice” last May of whether to stay in the party.