Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley

In September 2013, when former Galway West TD, Brian Walsh was expelled from Fine Gael, voters knew it was because he opposed the Government’s abortion legislation.

He was readmitted 10 months later. And when he resigned from the Dáil, months before the 2016 General Election, Walsh cited medical grounds for quitting politics.

When his former constituency colleague, Éamon Ó Cuív, resigned as deputy leader of Fianna Fáil in the Spring of 2012, nobody was in any doubt that it was because he disagreed with party leader Micheál Martin’s stance on a European treaty.

Whether supporters of........

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