VIDEO: Micheál Martin feels the heat as FF ‘star’ Averil Power quits

Fianna Fáil’s Micheál Martin was struggling to contain a crisis of credibility after one of the party’s most high-profile figures made an explosive exit denouncing his leadership.

Scrambling to try and limit the political damage unleashed by Dublin senator Averil Power’s devastating condemnation of the party in which she branded former colleagues “cynical cowards” incapable of change,

Mr Martin traded insults with her as the ugly row overshadowed Fianna Fáil’s first byelection win in nearly two decades.