Ciara Phelan: Do eviction ban concessions show a Government not far from its own 'notice to quit'? 

Now that the Independent TDs know the power they wield, they will come knocking on ministers’ doors again

A protest in Cork against the lifting of the eviction ban. Politicians knew they’d have to defend the move but were not expecting the severity of the public anger. Picture: Cian O'Regan

The Independent TDs should be “ashamed of themselves”, thundered Richard Boyd Barrett in the Dáil.

The People Before Profit TD was angry at Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien’s cap-in-hand approach to the Regional Independents who bartered for services in return for their support to get the ending of the eviction ban over the line last week.