Jack Horgan-Jones

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481 appearances 6 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 23 Aug

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Today with David McCullagh · The coalition blame game and a vote of no confidence · 14 Apr 2026 podcast

Morning, David.

How are you?

Handily, yeah, but the margin is going to be interesting and the voting intentions of some of the independent TDs who nominally...

Support the government will be interesting to watch as well.

I mean, if you want to sum this up in one quick line, half the government, or at least a third of the cabinet, was supposed to be across the Atlantic on a trade mission in Canada this time this week.

Instead, they're at home, as you say, defending emotion of confidence, putting emotion of confidence in themselves.

Voting through financial resolutions to enable, frankly, enormous cost of living package that was rumoured to be in the tens of millions and turned out being more than 500 million in total.

And trying to count the size of their own majority.

So if you wanted to just quickly express the impact of the political fallout,

of the week of disruption from protests and blockades last week.

That sums it up pretty neatly.

They're nowhere near where they thought they would be.

They're damaged, they're dented.

Their internal cohesion, I suppose, is in question to some extent.

And they're very much on the defensive, on the back foot.

Yeah, and I suspect that if he does end up voting confidence in the government, he'll take it right down to the wire.

I wouldn't be expecting any missives from Danny Healy-Ray as to his voting intention.

And anyone who heard his interview with Radio Kerry, with Gerry O'Sullivan of Radio Kerry, yesterday could be left in no doubt as to the depth of his discomfort and displeasure with how the government handled things.

And indeed, that's a discomfort that extends to Michael Healy-Ray, who last week was making comments that were

in the round support of the protesters, while he did stop short of endorsing the blockades, I think that this speaks to, you know, the nature of a government that is propped up by independents.

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