Forget the resignation of An Tainiste, Frances Fitzgerald, a few weeks back. Remember Leo's charge at the English Foes, at least that what seems to be the case for the FG Party's rise in popularity in the lastest Irish Times political poll. It see FG at 36% of first preference votes, while FF have see a fall back to 25%. Sinn Fein see no change at 19% of the vote, with others at 20%.

In a time of austerity and a divided electorate, the Fine Geal party has at last found its nationalist creditials. FG are typically distingushed as west-Brits. Those on the Ireland of Ireland who beleive that all is good on the mainland. As a right wing party FG have never really shown any really ambition for Ireland, or at least from the outside and for many in the electorate this seems to be the case. The nationalism however is not Irish nationalism in the real sense which is better defined as republican. An Taoiseach Leo Varkarda and his Tainiste, Simon Covney, have with Brexit are now in a position to highlight their Irishness by taking on the old foe the English, as the battle to retain an invisible boarder between north and south, this is helped by the DUPs stance that Northern Ireland should be treated no less than those in Scotland, England and Wales when travelling to the Mainland.

An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has announced new appoints to his cabinet after the resignation of An Tᮡiste and Minister for Business, Frances Fitzgerald, amid inappropriate communications between her office and An Garda Siochana. Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Simon Coveney, has been appointed as An Tᮡiste and remains in the Foreign Affairs and Trade Department. Heather Humphrey's moves from Culture to Business, Enterprise and Innovation, taking over the position vacated by Frances Fitzgerald, and Jossepha Madigan replaces Heather Huphrey's as Culture Minister.

An Tᮡiste, Frances Fitzgerald, has resigned from her position of Tᮡiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation. This follows from a string of emails, which she and the Department of Justice with held and denied their existance. The contraversy lead to motions of No Confidence being brought before the Dail. Following on from lenthly discussions between An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, and the Fianna Fail Leader, Micheal Martin, the resignation was accepted by An Taoiseach who now takes over her portfiolo on a temporary basis.

Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein have both submitted votes of no confidence against Tᮡiste Frances Fitzgerald. An email sent to An Tᮡiste, when she was Minister for Justice, set out the legal tatics that An Garda Siochana would use against whistle-blower Maurice McCabe. The email contain unfounded allegation of sexual misconducted by the former Gaurd. The opposition parties believe that An Tᮡiste should have acted on these legal suggestions, and question why if should could not intervene how was it that this information was passed to her, this also on top of lies about the time line by the Department on when An Tᩮiste received the email. The Fine Geal Party have made a motion of confidence in An Tainiste. The Confidence and Supply agreement between FF and FG is under pressure and could lead to a pre-Christmas Election.

FG continue to improve in the polls. The right wing party and main party in the current minority government were on 34% in the latest opinion poll carried out by the Sunday Times, up 3 points from the last Sunday Times poll. The centre-Right party, FF were up 4 points to 31%, while centre-Left Sinn Fein was down 5 points to 15%. Others were down 3 points.