“I didn’t wake up at 15 – unlike some people – and want to be Taoiseach.” Frances Fitzgerald’s journey in politics has been different to many of the people she worked alongside. The time when she felt her career was at an end was also a relatively rare occurrence in Irish politics. The Charleton Tribunal described her as resigning “selflessly” in the national interest. But the scars from that decision remain. In the second episode of Experience, Frances Fitzgerald talked about her resignation, the populist politics she felt drove it and her own journey into politics. Her resignation in 2017 was…

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