Senan Molony: Why has President Catherine Connolly convened the Council of State over the International Protection Bill, and what might happen to it?

A. It is, if only because it is the first time she has done it, and it has already raised eyebrows at Leinster House, although nobody is yet saying a word. But it goes to the sometimes tense relationship between a Head of State and the Government, which once led to a president’s resignation (Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh in 1974, having called an examination of the Emergency Powers Bill).