A Tánaiste resigns - Pavlovian hatreds too easy to rile

Apart from averting an election for a while, it is hard to see any up side in the decision by Frances Fitzgerald to resign over the McCabe affair — an entirely avoidable, grubby

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has, so early in his premiership, been weakened because he over-played his hand; Micheál Martin must rein in his fundamentalist colleagues who,

almost irrespective of consequences, wanted an election. That consequence points to the only winners: Sinn Féin.