Pádraig Hoare: Micheál Martin is pinning his legacy on the climate fight

If the past two days are anything to go by, Micheál Martin is preparing to throw his chips in the highest poker stake political game of our time, climate change

Members of the Red Rebel Brigade outside the Scottish Events Campus stage a protest along the fencing on the perimeter of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow on Tuesday. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Legacy [ leg-uh-see ]. Noun. Practices that are handed down from the past by tradition. Something left or handed down by a predecessor.

What will Taoiseach Micheál Martin's political legacy be? He'll not have long in the big chair. He waited for a long time to sit in it, rode out the toxicity around his party which built up in the 21st century, and has staved off – for now – those who wish to see him toppled within Fianna Fáil.