Daniel McConnell: Halfway through their term, how have our ministers performed?

Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan: This historic three-way coalition has had to weather Brexit, Covid-19, the war in Ukraine and the cost-of-living crisis. Picture: Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie

Approaching the halfway stage of this Government’s expected lifespan, this historic three-way coalition has had to weather Brexit, Covid-19 and now a war in Ukraine and cost-of-living crisis.

Increasingly unpopular with the public as a collective, with the summer break now here, it is time to run the rule over the individual performance of Cabinet ministers and separate the wheat from the chaff.