Micheál Martin doesn’t need enemies when he has friends like Brian Crowley

NOT for the first time, I find myself wondering why Micheál Martin doesn’t tell the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party to simply shove it.

Politics is a selfish business, but such a bunch of ingrates you never came across as the senators and TDs that currently make up the party’s grouping in Leinster House. That’s not to mention the recently un-whipped party MEP, Brian Crowley. There is hardly a month goes by that we don’t hear of another potential challenge to the leadership of Martin. It seems as if he is in charge of delinquents, the majority of whom have an extraordinary view of their own individual abilities.

Sadly, they never seem to display much to back up that view, in either their political skills or mental prowess.