{"id":399988,"date":"2026-04-15T16:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399988\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:11:07","slug":"ffs-three-youngest-tds-hit-out-at-party-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399988\/","title":{"rendered":"FF&#8217;s three youngest TDs hit out at party colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three youngest Fianna F\u00e1il TDs have issued a statement hitting out at their senior colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>James O&#8217;Connor, Ryan O&#8217;Meara and Albert Dolan said such colleagues expect them to just explain the Government&#8217;s difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>However, they said this is not the role they want and they will not accept it any longer.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they urged party colleagues to listen more closely, speak more honestly and to act more decisively.<\/p>\n<p>The strident statement comes just a day after the Government lost two TDs after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2026\/0414\/1568232-healy-rae-resigns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">both Michael and Danny Healy-Rae broke ranks with the coalition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the fallout from the fuel protests continues, they believe the social contract is strained to breaking point.<\/p>\n<p>The three TDs said Fianna F\u00e1il must get back to bringing the concerns of the community to the Government and finding solutions.<\/p>\n<p>They said this view is shared by their most experienced colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>However, the group of TDs insisted that this intervention is not about challenging any individual or singling out any member of the Government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three youngest Fianna F\u00e1il TDs have issued a statement hitting out at their senior colleagues. James O&#8217;Connor,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-399988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}