Kevin Doyle

So there were signs it would be a significant day.

This is a win for Sinn Féin.

Sinn Féin put down this motion of no confidence before the government even announced their half a billion euro package.

That was the line being thrown back at them is that they were never going to be happy with whatever came out of this.

But this is a scalp now.

It is a minister gone.

It means the crisis rolls on for two or three more days.

They still have a clear majority.

But it does, I would argue, change the dollar arithmetic a little bit because you're listening and you're going to see, I think, over the next couple of days...

that the other men and women of the people, and I use that as a complimentary term, I'm thinking about the likes of Sean Canney, Kevin Boxer-Moore and Marion Harkin, those other independent ministers who are that other leg of this government, they are going to come under ferocious pressure now because the Healy Rays have gone.

It'll be like, Healy Ray...

and things start to look a bit shakier.

You've lost Pascal Donoghue as well.

Final question, Fionnán.

I mentioned that Michael Healy-Ray took that swipe at Michal Martin.

We've sat in this studio many times in recent months talking about the future of Michal Martin, how under threat he was within his own party over the Jim Gavin fiasco.

Obviously, Jim O'Callaghan has been damaged.

I think he was called G.I.

Jim.

In the doll today.