Overview
- Martin, speaking Sunday after Fianna Fáil’s Arbour Hill commemoration, said he has a mandate to lead the party into the next elections.
- He rejected talk of an organised push to remove him, saying there was no challenge to see off.
- Tension rose after three of the party’s youngest TDs wrote Wednesday to criticise how the government handled recent fuel‑price protests and blockades.
- Cabinet ministers publicly backed him Friday, even as some colleagues kept up complaints about the response to the blockades.
- He pointed to warm grassroots receptions in Mullingar and Dublin and said he will step up consultation with TDs as households face pressure linked to the war in the Middle East.