Micheál Martin confronts accused rebel TDs in tense Fianna Fail think-in; Barry Cowen, now Says, Martin is the Leader, no more Whingeing, and Cowen also States, Jim O’Callaghan, has lost the Plot, but Barry, you got Shafted, surely, you have the Balls, to tell Martin, Enough, Leo is under the Fairies Curse, all to play for, Come on the Fianna Fail Bulls, with Big Balls, Stand up, Save the Party???

Micheál Martin at a Fianna Fáil think-in event in Co Cavan yesterday UP DATED BY FRED BASSETT.

 Political Reporter

Friday September 10 2021, 12.01am, The Times

The Fianna Fáil think-in went on late into the night yesterday, as the party had an “honest” but “tense at times” discussion about the party’s 2020 general election performance, according to one senior party source.

It is also understood that Micheál Martin, the taoiseach, was phoning TDs whose names were on the list of 15 potential rebels published by The Times this week to see if they were surprised that they were on the list.

A number of them have now come out to distance themselves from the catalogue of potential rebel TDs.

The 15 names are Jim O’Callaghan, Barry Cowen, Dara Calleary, John Lahart, Michael Moynihan, Marc MacSharry, Éamon Ó Cuív, Willie O’Dea, Joe Flaherty, Padraig O’Sullivan, James O’Connor, Jackie Cahill, John McGuinness,