Future of Micheal Martin

Watch it FF and Martin will get a big jump in the polls after today and in a few weeks will probably try to get out of the agreement by saying now we are out of the pandemic we need an election to show what we need to move forward. FG and other parties know this may happen do watch for little bits of jockeying for position

I believe they are yes. FF have two big problems:

1. They are a medium sized party but many of their members and TDs believe that they should still be the electoral juggernaut that they were for most of the history of the state. For these people that party simply must just have the wrong leader and someone else can return them to the promised land. The truth is that their previous state was a defiance of the expected outcome of a PR-STV voting system and the modern multi-party system is more of an actual reflection of it. No leader is going to return them to the days where they were getting 70+ seats in every single election.
2. The party has no real identity. They defined themselves by the simple fact that they were the ones most frequently in power and tweaked their ideology to maintain that power. Now that they are no longer that party of power what are they? Michael Martin hasn't cleated this up and many people in the party are eager for them to define themselves in one way or another. Again, there is a feeling that a new leader might do this so that they can focus on one section of the electorate before all of their current voters literally die off.

Personally I'd be shocked if he was still there. He's only 61 but he got into politics at an extremely young age. He's been in the Dail now for 32 years and hasn't got anything left to prove. He pulled his party back from the brink in 2011, exceeded expectations in 2016 and became Taoiseach in 2020. If he tried to stay on the most likely outcome for him (or any other FF) leader is that they end up propping up a SF government next time round. No, this is his peak. He may as well go out on the top.

I've haven't voted for either FF or FG in over 30 years and my SF vote in the last election was really a protest vote about them not allowing MLM to take part in the televised debates back then.

Now we're essentially heading into a potential long term war in Europe, I have more confidence with MM at the helm than I'd have with any of the other current party leaders.

Or am I suffering from some sort of mild, delusional form of Stockholm syndrome?

Get better soon meehole, your country needs you.

But it's St. Patrick's America Day don't you know. We can't dare upset the Americans.