Fianna Fáil’s recently nominated candidate for Limerick mayor said that tánaiste Micheál Martin is unfit to lead, The Ditch can reveal.

Micheál Martin in early March said there was “no question” single-parent families would be covered by the proposed family constitutional amendment – despite having received advice from the attorney general months before that this wasn’t the case.

On 8 December, 2023 attorney general Rossa Fanning wrote to minister Roderic O’Gorman with his advice to government ahead of tomorrow‘s two constitutional referenda. Government wouldn’t publish it. Here it is. Download it at the links above and below.

The attorney general told minister for children Roderic O’Gorman, “It is difficult to predict with certainty how the Irish courts would interpret the concept of ‘other durable relationships.'"

The attorney general told minister for children Roderic O’Gorman there is legal “uncertainty” about the government’s proposed care amendment to the constitution and the legal obligations it would place on the