Alison O'Connor: Coalition facing mammoth tasks, not least achieving a united front

The political eye-poking continued this week, with Leo Varadkar getting into yet another contretemps with Micheál Martin, writes Alison O’Connor.

The leaders of the three Coalition parties, environment minister for Eamon Ryan, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, and Taoiseach Micheál Martin arriving at the Cabinet meeting in Dublin castle. Picture: Julien Behal

IT would seem very ‘us’ somehow to have battled our way through a global pandemic rather successfully, only for things to then fall apart politically. 

That hasn’t happened yet, but observing the current — very frayed — state of relations within our Government, it is difficult to feel optimism about overcoming the challenges of the near future.