Mary Regan
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767 appearances
11 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Sep
Mary Regan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes, he went into the Dáil for the confidence motion and he didn't appear to acknowledge...
the sort of hurt that people were feeling.
He focused very much so, and this is the view of Manny Fianna Fáil, on the harder line element of the protests, on those who were kind of questioning the legitimacy of the state and didn't recognise the democracy.
He didn't get the...
Person we've heard a lot about this week, the ordinary decent protester, the ordinary decent farmer, did he?
And we'll get to the Fianna Fáil would-be heave that may not transpire in a minute.
But let's just unpack the last couple of days because there's a lot to unpack.
The no confidence motion, like usually these no confidence motions, they take the spark out of things, they take the heat out of things, the government rallies together and that sort of settles something for a while.
So they usually have the sort of counter effect that opposition might be trying to achieve from them.
Not so this time.
This confidence motion, although the government won't
won it, hasn't taken the heat out of things.
So let's just look at the Healey Rays and their decision first of all.
It was one of those sort of very dramatic days I felt where as journalists in the press gallery we could see a lot of things going on down in the Dáil chamber.
So maybe take us through how the government came to find out about the Healey Rays decision, how they exerted massive drama as much as they could out of how they pulled out of government.
Well
And just a few minutes earlier, a backbencher in Fianna Fáil was looking over the shoulder of Michael Healy-Wray and saw his scribbles on his piece of paper that he was preparing for his speech, saw his line written there that he cannot support the government in this motion.
And that backbencher did their duty and passed on the information to Mary Butler, which was the first...
The chief whip heard of it.
Meanwhile, the Taoiseach was over in his office and didn't know what was going on.
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