does anyone have any idea what would have happened if there had been a dissolution of the dail in november 1994 after the collapse of the ff/labour government??
anyone have polling data from that time?
clearly ff/labour would not have been returned.....
but would labour have lost seats?
FF were well unpopular at the time and would have been decimated in an election. Bertie would never have become Taoiseach and corruption revelations would have finished them off.
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Labour might have been punished by the electorate for causing an election though.
There's no doubt that FF would have been hammered, and an opposition FF would have been far more exposed to the scandals that erupted later in the decade. The really interesting thing would have been the campaign that Labour would have run. Would they have used the collapse of the government as a way to hold onto some of their Spring Tide?
And what of FG and the PDs? If they had run as a united ticket, out to punish both FF and Labour we could have had a very interesting realignment.
The party who did worst out of the whole affair was probably FG who had a great opportunity to reclaim some of the ground lost since 1987, and who would have been the beneficiaries of the Tiger.
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Why did that government collapse? I was only a youngin at the time.
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Due to the father brendan smyth fiasco and a supreme court judge, if i remember rightly.
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AG Harry Whelahan's (of X-case notoriety)appointment to the supreme court I think was the last straw if I remember rightly.
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Father who and what judge? is this on a wiki article or something?
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Something to do with labours opposition to the appointment of harry whelehan (the AG at the time) as president of the high court. On top of this, the governments mismanagement of the fr. Brendan Smyth case did not do any good for their relationship.Originally Posted by Universal_001
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It was Whelehan's appointment as President of the High Court without anyone consulting Dick Spring that finally caused the collapse. That followed on from the AG's mishandling of an extradition warrant for Brendan Smyth.
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