Elaine Loughlin: Expulsion of two Greens leaves Government with threadbare majority

A single-seat majority for the Government may not be quite as bad as it appears, but could it survive a real and deep crisis?

Green Party TD Neasa Hourigan and party leader Eamon Ryan. Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

The expulsion of two Green Party TDs leaves the Government with what could turn into a difficult arithmetic problem to resolve.

Having already lost Fine Gael's Eoghan Murphy and Fianna Fáil's Marc MacSharry, the expulsion of Neasa Hourigan and Patrick Costello has left the Coalition with a threadbare majority of one.