Electoral Armageddon for Fianna Fail
Party faces years in opposition as support collapses
By Ralph Riegel and Michael Brennan, Irish Independent
Monday February 28 2011
MICHEAL Martin strode into the count centre to the deafening cheers of his supporters.
But the Fianna Fail leader — only in the job for five weeks — had the unmistakable air of a condemned man approaching the gallows.
Inside Cork City hall, he faced news that would make any party leader wince. And he would have to face it in the full glare of the media spotlight.
Fine Gael used to jokingly call Mr Martin ‘the Dauphin’, in a grudging nod to his obvious leadership credentials. And there was more than a whiff of guillotine in the air as the scale of the FF massacre unfolded.
Read more at: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/elections/latest-news/electoral-armageddon-for-fianna-fail-2559044.htmlBy NIAMH HORAN and Daniel McCONNELL
