Sinn Féin has put forward a motion of no confidence in Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy. Photo Gareth Chaney Collins It’s all personal in politics

Inside Politics: Sinn Féin’s motion of no confidence in Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy comes before Dáil

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