Mary Regan

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767 appearances 11 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 12 Sep

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The Indo Daily · Beginning of the end for Micheál Martin? Can Taoiseach survive second leadership crisis in six-months · 16 Apr 2026 podcast

Well, the fact that someone was departing his government while he was on the phone to the Canadian prime minister and the fact that he is in Berlin as the sort of rebels are getting louder back home, I think it shows the really difficult balancing act that he's trying to achieve here between international statesmen and someone who has to kind of keep the home fires burning.

Is he too sort of bigger picture, sort of rising above everything when, you know, really what's needed is someone who kind of has the feels for the country?

And you spoke about the changeover from Leo Varadkar resigning and Simon Harris bringing what they described at the time as the new energy.

But the difference that time is Simon Harris was nipping at Leo Varadkar's heels for some time.

And there doesn't seem to be anyone in Fianna Fáil with the same sort of hunger

So Jack Chambers might have fallen as the next in line.

Then all attention turned to Jim O'Callaghan last autumn.

And I think TDs were getting a little bit tired of Jim O'Callaghan's waiting around and not seizing the opportunity as he had it, just waiting for it to fall on his lap, as it were.

And then Jim O'Callaghan had a blunder of his own with the threat to call in the army.

Has that damaged Jim O'Callaghan, do you think, as a leadership candidate?

And the next stumbling block for him is that he is Director of Elections in the GOE West by election.

And given the events of the last two weeks and Fianna Fáil might do even worse than it might have anticipated in the first place.

But Jim O'Connor had always sort of surprised me that he was quite popular amongst rural Ireland, given the constituency of South Dublin that he represents and, you know, the sort of core Fianna Fáil values many of the rural TDs felt he represented.

But it looks like now we're looking to Dara Cleary and Dara O'Brien, one the Dublin TD and one the rural Ireland minister.

And the perception was that Fianna Fáil had a problem in Dublin and it needed a Dublin leader to solve its problem in Dublin.

Now it could have a problem in rural Ireland.

Just as you mentioned women in Fianna Fáil and the women in ministerial rank who aren't being spoken about as leaders, there are some very effective and strong women in the Fianna Fáil ranks who were not promoted by Micheál Martin, like Catherine Arda.

There are people like Erin McGrehan who have been quite good but didn't get the position.

So Fianna Fáil does have, you know, a sort of...

with women rising up the ranks of the party.

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