Peadar Tóibín: “Micheál Martin is probably the least republican leader Fianna Fáil has ever seen.”

He said a recruitment embargo for administrative staff in the health service would save €250m a year.

Indeed, I would say the Government is incinerating taxpayers' money at a rate in those terms.

We want to introduce dynamic pricing to petrol, diesel, agricultural diesel, and home heating oil. How this will work will be that when petrol and diesel reach €1.90 on international prices, cent per cent, the price of carbon tax will come…

People power has forced the Government to change its approach as 'they could not take any more' and took to the streets.