Marc MacSharry resigned the Fianna Fáil whip last year, saying party policies were decided “in a fashion consistent with an undemocratic totalitarian regime”
In late September, newly-restored Minister of State Dara Calleary told the Sunday Independent he would “100 per cent” back his “good mate” if he wanted to come back. Around the budget, MacSharry and the Taoiseach had a brief exchange on the floor of the Dáil, the rebel TD saying the budget was pretty good.
Calleary was due to second a motion from Laois-Offaly TD Barry Cowen to restore the whip to MacSharry last week, but was in the Dáil chamber. In the end, Cowen sat down next to Senator Diarmuid Wilson at the parliamentary party meeting and told him that he was about to propose the motion, and would Wilson second it.
Those close to the Taoiseach insist he is indifferent to the development. And there is a school of thought that accommodating a vocal critic is a sign of Martin’s relative strength – but it has set tongues wagging.
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