John Lee
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first heard Nov 2018
last heard 20 Dec
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Well, I've news for everyone.
Michael Lowry has played a role in supporting virtually every government since he became an independent.
And it should not be forgotten that Bertie O'Hearn struck deals with Michael Lowry that were public at the time.
There was various levels of his support for governments.
And what he had done was, and you've discussed many of the
The negatives about Michael, what he had done was present a track record where he could be relied on.
And even when people were, I remember being described to me, and I actually won't mention the independent support in the government, but people can guess, were physically running down corridors pulling their hair during the collapse of the
Fianna Fáil government Michael Lowry stayed firm to the very end with that Fianna Fáil Greens coalition of 2011 but that really started to fall apart in 2008 with the decision to take the medical cards off the elderly
So I said in the last time we discussed this that I think the big error that they all made was that Michael Lowry started giving press conferences, which is a big step.
It's a very visible step.
Sinn Féin, who themselves had lost 20% of their support, immediately latched onto that in a brilliant political move that then...
forced a coalition almost of agreement between the leftist parties that had not existed during a general election only a month beforehand.
To Danny's point that the two main parties were chastened, you know, I had a quick look at the figures last night.
Fianna Fáil actually dropped in their percentage in the last election.
2020 was deemed as a very bad election for them, if we remember.
only for COVID.
God knows what could have happened to the two leaders at the time, Micheál Martin and Leo Varadkar.
That's when the historic coalition came together because they'd had bad elections.
But Fianna Fáil in 2020 at 22.2%.
Last time out, it was 21.9%.
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