Acts 17:30 LE FILETNE anti-Republican Irish Independent as a "Sack Jack" vote.
For Haughey, it was the first short step towards the carving up of Jack Lynch. One of the major tactors contributing to the defeat of Haughey by Lynch in the 1970 inner-Fianna Fail power struggle was that Jack Lynch, with the patronage of state power, was able to frighten off or buy off Haughey's potential supporters. Haughey's strategy since then has been to bring about the removal of Fianna Fail from office in such a way that the maximum blame for this rested on Jack Lynch, while none rubbed off on Charlie.
He has succeeded.
Now will begin the process of squaring accounts. This battle, or the prospect of this battle inside Fianna Fail, will mean that the Party attempts to regain some of the mantle of Free State "Republicanism".
SHORT RESPITE?
This is in itself should be enough to ensure a refusal by Fianna Fail to give full support to the Coalition when it attempts to implement the Fianna Fail repression policy, and therefore to increase the need of the Coalition Government to carry the whole parliamentary Labour Party with it in any repressive legislation. What this probably means is a short respite in repression. If Republicans - Provisional and Official - can now take advantage of this period to re-examine the politics of their respective organisations, or if revolutionary socialists and republicans can take advantage of the same period to fight for a Socialist-Republican regroupment, the possibility exists for a rolling back of the repression. *When Fianna Fail split after the arrest of Haughey and Blaney the dissidents also split. Haughey opted to remain inside Fianna Fail to the point of voting confidence in Lynch. Boland left to form Aontacht Eireann, Blaney remained inside until expelled.
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