Sean Defoe

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

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

No, I think Simon Harris's leadership being newer also just helps in that.

You know, he is a newer leader.

There's not an immediate challenger to him either that has the credentials.

Within Fine Gael, you've seen an awful lot of the heavy hitters step away over the last few years, maybe of Pascal Donoghue.

was still on the pitch.

Some people would be looking to him now.

He's obviously gone.

Leo Varadkar, Simon Coveney, all these people who were seen as putative leaders of Fine Gael are now off doing other things and entirely out of politics.

But there is still pressure on Simon Harris, I think, overall, just an acceptance that maybe there isn't someone

Like Helen McEntee took an awful lot of flack as Justice Minister, hasn't really recovered from that.

Patrick O'Donovan, as you say, I mean, the line arguably of the debate yesterday was when Ivana Bacik was criticising him and said, goodbye, Viktor Orban, hello, Patrick O'Donovan, for his stance on media freedom and media rights, which got a laugh even from the Taoiseach in the tall chamber and tells you maybe where the mood is on that.

And Simon Harris himself slapping down Patrick O'Donovan's suggestion the Commission and the man should be investigating the media is really all you need to know on that.

No, I think that was pretty clear yesterday.

They were all voting against the government but voting against

In different ways and with different solutions to it.

And even Jed Nash, the Labour TD, who had so much difficulty on with you the other day explaining how they would have ended the blockade, said the opposition has to do better to avoid things like this.

Obviously, people don't feel they are getting proper representation through their TDs or through their unions.

And they had took this this protest then to go on the streets.

and shut the country down.

If you look at the different packages that people are offering, I mean, Sinn Féin, talking big about their getting rid of the carbon tax, and also there's energy credits, etc.

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