Sean Defoe

I don't know.

These things are impossible to predict.

Of course, there are many people within the parliamentary party who are opposed to him and very paranoid at the same time.

And they think that maybe he's buying time to get to the end of the presidency.

And then when you get to the end of the presidency, he'll buy time by saying, we're not before Christmas.

And then before you know it, you're into the new year.

And he says, I might just stay on, you know.

So, you know, that's the nature of politics.

You can't exactly predict in these matters, but there seems to be a very significant cohort or number of TDs within the parliamentary party that are very much definately of the view that he should move on and go.

And so you would have noticed it also if you were at the Ordesh that there was a rather tepid ovation given to him after his speech.

So it wasn't, you know, it wasn't the bellyaching roar of previous years that were given, you know, to leaders of one kind and the other.

Yeah.

Despite a few pints being sunk by the crowd before they went into there, I might add as well.

And paranoia in Fianna Fáil.

I'm shocked to think that would be ever the case.

Let's get into Galway West now.

Our reporter Emily Keegan is over there.

She's been speaking to some of those people yesterday who were casting their vote in Salt Hill as to what way they went.

Voted fairly independent, yeah, not with a big party, because I feel like the track record over the last few years hasn't been great.

Just the usual national ones, nothing kind of too locally based, I would say, considering it's for the Dáil.