Editing Fine Gael (section)

===Recovery===
The collapse of the [[Celtic Tiger]] resulted in the [[post-2008 Irish economic downturn]], which threw Ireland not only into economic turmoil but also political upheaval. The [[2011 Irish general election]] saw the governing Fianna Fáil collapse at the polls,<ref name="Guardian McDonald">{{cite news |last=McDonald |first=Henry |date=26 February 2011 |title=Fianna Fáil trounced as Fine Gael and Labour set to form coalition |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/26/fianna-fail-irish-general-election |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200111110654/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/26/fianna-fail-irish-general-election |archive-date=11 January 2020 |access-date=29 January 2021 |work=The Observer |publisher=[[The Guardian]] |location=}}</ref> while Fine Gael and the Labour Party returned with their best results ever.<ref name="Guardian McDonald"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Taggart |first=Peter |date=5 March 2011 |title=Irish parties agree to form coalition government |url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/03/05/ireland.government |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109123809/http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/03/05/ireland.government/ |archive-date=9 November 2012 |access-date=29 January 2021 |work=CNN |publisher=}}</ref> For the first time in its history, Fine Gael became the largest party in Dáil Eireann. Once more Fine Gael and Labour paired up to form a government, their tenure marked by the difficulty of trying to guide Ireland towards economic recovery. In 2013, a number of Fine Gael parliamentary party members, including [[Lucinda Creighton]], were expelled from the party for defying the party whip on [[anti-abortion]] grounds to oppose the [[Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill]].<ref name="Making Renua">{{cite news |last=McGee |first=Harry |date=13 March 2015 |title=Renua: the making of a political party |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/renua-the-making-of-a-political-party-1.2138502 |work=[[Irish Times]] |location= |access-date=3 March 2021 |archive-date=16 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116055028/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/renua-the-making-of-a-political-party-1.2138502 |url-status=live }}</ref> These members subsequently formed a political party called [[Renua]].<ref name="Making Renua"/>