“We’ve learnt our lessons,” declared Fianna Fail TD, James Lawless, reacting on the Floating Voter podcast to the latest opinion poll that shows Fianna Fail surging to 33%.

“Time has moved on, we’ve all moved on,” said the Kildare North TD when asked how the party has come back from the brink so quickly. The party’s increasing popularity also shows that the new politics is working, he said.

“We’re getting stuck in and not shouting from the sidelines looking to bring down the government.”

While Micheal Martin is also number one in the party leader ratings, it is Taoiseach Enda Kenny who is coming under increasing pressure.

Backbench TDs are asking when he’s going to step down and the Floating Voter team of Niall O’Connor and Cormac McQuinn asked whether the Taoiseach was now a political corpse, questioning if he will be gone after the next budget in October.

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