{"id":400651,"date":"2026-04-16T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400651\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:00:10","slug":"protests-end-but-pressure-begins-to-mount-on-fianna-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/400651\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests end but pressure begins to mount on Fianna F\u00e1il"},"content":{"rendered":"

The protests on the streets may have ceased, but the political upheaval may have just commenced.<\/p>\n

Fianna F\u00e1il TDs are worried and want things to change.<\/p>\n

D\u00e1il seats are in jeopardy, and TDs fear that without radical change they will remain the focus for the ferocious public anger unleashed during the fuel protests.<\/p>\n

That could signal major trouble for the party leader and Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin.<\/p>\n

The party’s youngest TDs issued a statement essentially saying they won’t tolerate being ignored any longer.<\/p>\n

More experienced colleagues chipped in tonight.<\/p>\n

They are seeking an urgent meeting to discuss the cause of the party’s difficulties, which they hope will take place next week.<\/p>\n

\"Fianna
\nFianna F\u00e1il’s youngest TDs James O’Connor, Ryan O’Meara and Albert Dolan issued a statement today<\/p>\n

Others within the Fianna F\u00e1il ranks are trying to figure out if this is a coordinated move against Miche\u00e1l Martin.<\/p>\n

And they want to know if one of the contenders to the throne is pressing the buttons behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

Apparently not, is the word.<\/p>\n

Instead, a group of young and older TDs have grown tired of waiting for someone to challenge Miche\u00e1l Martin’s leadership.<\/p>\n

They now want to force a confidence vote in the party leader, which requires the signatures of 12 of the party’s 48 TDs.<\/p>\n

Many within the parliamentary party feel such a move might be premature and would prefer to weigh things up after the by-elections in late May.<\/p>\n

So, it is unclear right now if this latest wave of unease has true momentum.<\/p>\n

But unquestionably, Miche\u00e1l Martin is a leader under pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The protests on the streets may have ceased, but the political upheaval may have just commenced. Fianna F\u00e1il…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-400651","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\/400651","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=400651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}