Frances Fitzgerald can be our ‘hero of the hour’

The phrase “all politics is local” is generally attributed to the former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, the late Tip O’Neill. 

In Ireland, it is not just local but vocal, considering the shouting match going on between our three main political parties about which of them is to blame for bringing us to the brink of a pre-Christmas general eElection.

It doesn’t really matter whether it was goading by Sinn Féin or pressure by Fianna Fáil backbenchers on Micheál Martin to threaten to pull the plug that led the Fine Gael parliamentary party to act all defiant and pass a unanimous vote of confidence in the embattled Tánaiste, Frances Fitzgerald.