Frances Fitzgerald may have departed but this issue is far from buried

It took an extraordinarily long time, in political terms, for Frances Fitzgerald to finally announce that she would resign, suggests Alison O’Connor.

IN THE aftermath of this week’s major political drama there were deep breaths being taken in the Fianna Fáil leaders office in Leinster House on Tuesday night. Then the phone rang. It was Michael Healy-Rae calling to personally express his gratitude to Micheál Martin for preventing a general election.

The pair chatted and Mr Healy-Rae divulged that last weekend, at the height of the drama, he’d had “only” 50 canvassers out in his Kerry constituency and at no house visited did any one voter say they wanted an election. Nor given his phonecall of thanks, did he.