Sean Defoe

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707 appearances 8 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 23 Jun

Sean Defoe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Claire Byrne Show · Reaction as the government wins its confidence vote last night · 15 Apr 2026 podcast

Definitely.

And even more so after yesterday, when he gave a dull speech that didn't reference the army at all or anything that he had done.

It wasn't seen to give any sort of a mea culpa, sort of suggested that anyone who was criticising the guards were criticising him and him.

didn't really address a lot of the things that his government colleagues even would have wanted to see addressed.

There is certainly a bit of a riff there in this idea that he is the, you know, the absolute front runner or the favourite to replace Micheál Martin, I think is damaged.

And it's an interesting one because if you do take the long-term view that Micheál Martin is,

one way or another is unlikely to be the leader.

And there's various views in Fianna Fáil as to when that will be, be it at the changeover, when he becomes Tóniste, be it ahead of the next election or even later.

You now have the two front runners for that, his seeming chosen one in Jack Chambers, incredibly damaged after the presidential election and the Jim Gavin fiasco.

And now Jim O'Callaghan, very, very significantly damaged after this, as well as Micheál Martin himself taking an awful lot of flack.

Potentially.

I mean, there's no clear favourite now.

Maybe eyes have been turning towards Dara O'Brien in some of the people that I have been speaking to.

There's others like James Lawless who've said that they want to lead the party in future.

Hard to see Norma Foley putting the hand up and Dara Kaliri is maybe not really seen as a leadership type.

They all have problems with them is what I'm saying.

And perhaps as a result of that, Micheál Martin clings on longer.

I've never really bought into this idea that he's a person who will step away in the way that other Taoiseach have by dint that he lives for the job.

And we have predicted his downfall many, many times that he was going to take a European commissionership, that he was going to do this, that and the other.

And even though Michal Martin is very personally damaged by this, ironically, it may see him staying as leader of Fianna Fáil longer.

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