Overview
- Micheál Martin held a lengthy meeting with James O’Connor, Albert Dolan and Ryan O’Meara after their public statement that it should not take protests for the Government to act.
- Senior figures have requested an urgent Fianna Fáil parliamentary party meeting to address the fallout, yet no session is scheduled this week.
- Some TDs are discussing a confidence vote in the leader that would require 12 signatures, while others prefer to wait until by-elections in late May.
- Willie O’Dea says the party has been badly damaged by the response to fuel blockades that disrupted forecourts, even after a large support package for transport and farming.
- The Irish Independent reports TDs are sounding out Dara Calleary, Jim O’Callaghan and Darragh O’Brien as potential contenders, though no formal challenge has been launched.