Regina Doherty and Mary Mitchell O’Connor face backlash from colleagues

Fine Gael’s Regina Doherty and Mary Mitchell O’Connor are facing a major backlash from colleagues at a meeting of the party’s ministers tomorrow.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, the Fine Gael leader, has called the gathering ahead of the first Cabinet meeting of the new term on Wednesday.

Both ministers are set to be challenged about their summer-time gaffes over the old-age pension and teachers’ pay respectively.