McDaid resigns: Another Donegal byelection adds pressure to Government..
Now here, on the face of it, is a bizarre move from Jim McDaid. Why now? And why resign the seat? However it does makes things less complicated for Niall Blaney, and Sinn Fein’s Padraig MacLochlainn. That’s now four outstanding by elections to the Dail… It’s as though Oireachtas was making its own case that there are already too many representatives in Leinster House. Adds: So was he pushed? Or was this Dr Jim’s revenge ahead of what has to …