PDs should realise it’s time to call it a day
Health Minister Mary Harney now acts as interim leader and has stated several times that she does not wish to remain as head of the party in the long term.
Senator Fiona O’Malley has ruled herself as a leader, fearing she cannot win a Dáil seat in Dun Laoghaire.The party as a whole has fewer representatives nationally, for example, than does Fine Gael on Cork County Council alone.