Gerard Howlin: Change will come at a price for parties in any new government

The virus makes a non-Sinn Féin government more plausible to put together, but more difficult to deliver change with, in office, writes Gerard Howlin

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin with party colleagues speaking outside Leinster House last month. Using the crisis to form a government is mission critical for his survival as party leader. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA