Fianna Fáil’s Cathal Crowe says ‘someone had it in’ for Social Democrats TD

Social Democrats TD Eoin Hayes at Leinster House earlier this year. Photo: Sam Boal/Collins

Social Democrats TD Eoin Hayes at Leinster House earlier this year. Photo: Sam Boal/Collins

Eoin Hayes cut a forlorn political figure, sitting on the back benches of the Dáil chamber. No longer in the no man’s land of the far-back corner, between Danny Healy-Rae and the wall, he is now sitting behind the rest of the Social Democrats since being readmitted to the party.

But there was plenty of distance and little interaction with his party colleagues.