AFTER 13 years in power, Fine Gael needs to think carefully about whether or not it will go back into government, according to former Clare TD Madeline Taylor Quinn.
While the obvious thing is for Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and another smaller party or independents to form a government, Ms Taylor Quinn said there are downsides to staying on in power for even longer.
“We have a front bench in our party who have never served in opposition, who don’t know what it is to be an opposition TD, who have never sat in the Dáil from an opposition viewpoint,” she said.
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Owen Ryan has been a journalist with the Clare Champion since 2007, having previously worked with a number of other publications in Limerick, Cork and Galway. His first book will be published in December 2024.