Overview
- Micheál Martin met the party’s three youngest TDs after their public rebuke and later said he does not feel under threat as leader.
- Senior figures, including Willie O’Dea and Seán Ó Fearghaíl, said Fianna Fáil was badly damaged and warned of a disconnect between Cabinet and backbenchers.
- Members requested an urgent parliamentary party meeting, and some TDs are testing support for a confidence motion that would require 12 signatures.
- Government approved a multi‑hundred‑million euro support package for transport and farming after blockades choked fuel distribution, and minister of state Michael Healy‑Rae resigned over the response.
- Critics say the first package ignored farm diesel and that TDs were told to deliver messages they did not shape, which they argue fueled grassroots anger.