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"Their relationship is purely professional - I wouldn't say that they send each other birthday cards," says PJ Coogan. McGrath himself has insisted that the pair have a "cordial workmanlike relationship", but others observe that their personal relationship does not exude warmth. With the two senior figures in Fianna Fáil breathing down each other's necks in the Cork South Central constituency, it would hardly be surprising if there were occasional tensions between them. The fate of each of these Cork politicians is bound up inextricably with that of the other. Michael McGrath, who shares the same constituency, also has strong aspirations to be Taoiseach, and is seen as Martin's most likely successor. If Martin slips up, there will be another Corkman waiting in the wings. "The last thing he wants is to go down history as the first Fianna Fáil leader never to become Taoiseach," says PJ Coogan, the morning presenter on Cork station 96FM, who has known Martin for many years. It is seen as unlikely that he could continue as leader, having lost three general elections, in a party that still sees itself as the natural party of government. He either wins the election by having his party gain more seats than Fine Gael, and becomes Taoiseach, or he faces the prospect of political oblivion.
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If there is a general election this year, the Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin knows it will be a fight to the political death for himself personally.