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19/09/2011
FF Leader And Deputy 'Talk Presidency'
Fianna Fail (FF) leaders are due to meet today to discuss the approach the party will take during the presidential election.
Leader of the parliamentary party, Micheal Martin will meet with deputy Eamon Ó Cuív in Dublin.
It is understood that they will discuss the party’s stance on supporting an independent candidate or candidates.
Mr Martin will also meet Senator Labhrás Ó Murchú whose bid to get a presidential nomination prompted a bitter and inconclusive debate.
A number of younger TDs have urged Mr Martin to confront his critics at the meeting ensure that Fianna Fáil stays completely out of the presidential race.
"This is doing the party huge damage and Micheál has to kill it off tomorrow. If that means losing his deputy leader and a few Senators, so be it,"said one frontbench member last night.
At a six-hour party meeting,on Thursday last, Mr Ó Cuív threatened to resign as deputy leader if Mr Martin went ahead with a motion that would have prevented Fianna Fáil TDs and Senators from nominating any presidential candidate.
But Speaking on RTE Radio this morning Mr Ó Cuív said: "There is no question of running a Fianna Fáíl candidate at this stage but the party is in the process of conducting a healthy internal debate on the issue of independent candidates."
Mr Ó Cuív also denied suggestions that he was directly challenging the party leader.
Meanwhile it has been announced that the North’s Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuiness will step down from his duties in the North to allow him to run for the presidential election.
He is expected to temporarily hand over his position to the party's education minister John O'Dowd.
Mr Mc Guinness was officially ratified yesterday as his party's candidate for next month's election.
The North's Deputy First Minister has insisted that voters should not focus on his IRA past in the Irish presidential contest and will instead judge him on his record as a peacemaker.
"The reality is that people know my past," he said.
"I have put myself before the electorate on countless occasions since 1982 and particularly since 1997 when I was first elected as MP for Mid Ulster.
(LB/CD)
Leader of the parliamentary party, Micheal Martin will meet with deputy Eamon Ó Cuív in Dublin.
It is understood that they will discuss the party’s stance on supporting an independent candidate or candidates.
Mr Martin will also meet Senator Labhrás Ó Murchú whose bid to get a presidential nomination prompted a bitter and inconclusive debate.
A number of younger TDs have urged Mr Martin to confront his critics at the meeting ensure that Fianna Fáil stays completely out of the presidential race.
"This is doing the party huge damage and Micheál has to kill it off tomorrow. If that means losing his deputy leader and a few Senators, so be it,"said one frontbench member last night.
At a six-hour party meeting,on Thursday last, Mr Ó Cuív threatened to resign as deputy leader if Mr Martin went ahead with a motion that would have prevented Fianna Fáil TDs and Senators from nominating any presidential candidate.
But Speaking on RTE Radio this morning Mr Ó Cuív said: "There is no question of running a Fianna Fáíl candidate at this stage but the party is in the process of conducting a healthy internal debate on the issue of independent candidates."
Mr Ó Cuív also denied suggestions that he was directly challenging the party leader.
Meanwhile it has been announced that the North’s Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuiness will step down from his duties in the North to allow him to run for the presidential election.
He is expected to temporarily hand over his position to the party's education minister John O'Dowd.
Mr Mc Guinness was officially ratified yesterday as his party's candidate for next month's election.
The North's Deputy First Minister has insisted that voters should not focus on his IRA past in the Irish presidential contest and will instead judge him on his record as a peacemaker.
"The reality is that people know my past," he said.
"I have put myself before the electorate on countless occasions since 1982 and particularly since 1997 when I was first elected as MP for Mid Ulster.
(LB/CD)
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