Paul Hosford: Another Sinn Féin resignation prompts fresh questions for the party

Danielle Twomey is now an Independent councillor on Cork County Council after her acrimonious departure from Sinn Féin

Then Sinn Féin county councillor Danielle Twomey in Midleton at a 2021 protest against the proposed closure of the Owenacurra mental health facility. Picture: David Keane

At the outset of this Government, there were tens of new faces around Leinster House.

Journalists who had been there for much longer than the newly elected representatives sought to forge relationships with the newcomers and, of course, mine whatever information they had on areas such as government formation talks.