Fionnán Sheahan

There's still an incoherent opposition in terms of actually, you know...

Yeah, there's no election any time soon.

No, that takes me back as well.

You know, 97 to 02, to the Jackie Healy era, that was a time where if one independent was lost, you could have a toppling of the government.

So it very much mattered.

Two are gone here, it's not going to change the dollar arithmetic.

Went, you should go.

And they're not even the ones at the top of the queue.

Gillian Toole, Barry Heenan, the new independent TDs.

They'd be the, if you were looking for who to... A minister is likely to hang on longer because there's a car and a good job.

And those people are established.

They've been around a long time.

They've seen crises like this before.

Those people probably haven't.

So they are new to the gig as such.

So therefore... But you lose two of them, Fionnuala.

Things start tumbling.

You've got two by-elections coming on within, what, the next six weeks?

I think the government can forget about those now, anyway.

Yeah, well, that's gone anyway, you'd imagine.