Fianna Fáil will fight on

I suspect that talk of a Fianna Fáil meltdown will prove wide off the mark should there be a general election in the Republic. One of the things that has struck me about FF members is their total and utter loyalty to the party. In fact, they make some SF loyalists seem sensible! Remember that FF likes to describe itself as a national movement and they alone have supporters throughout every social class in the Republic. Times are undoubtedly hard for them at the moment – and rightly so – but they are the most formidable and effective party that the 32 counties have ever seen. They may take a hiding in the media and at the polls but they will not be beaten into oblivion. There is a saying in Irish: is doiligh drochrud a mharú/it is hard to kill a bad thing. Is doiligh Fianna Fáil a mharú!