Is this a brief period of calm before a resumption of chaos and acrimony, or have the political thunder clouds broken apart revealing patches of blue sky?
It very much depends on who in the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party you speak to.
What's inarguable is that the Dáil rises for its Christmas break tomorrow, so the answer won't be revealed until January.
The person at the centre of the row, Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin, has already hightailed it to Brussels for an EU leaders meeting.
What remains is unease.
For Fianna Fáil TDs, senators and MEPs who now stand against their leader, a choice beckons.
One politician told me today: "This isn't over by a long shot."
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At the same time, they couldn't articulate what the next move might be.
The big political bazooka is to put down a motion of no confidence in the leadership of Micheál Martin.
But, sceptics ask, why didn't the dissidents do just that last night at the parliamentary party meeting, if they possessed the required 12 names?
After all, the report into the party's disastrous presidential campaign confirmed that Fianna Fáil is about to lose up to €400,000 and Micheál Martin bears much of the responsibility for that outcome.
The so-called rebels are keeping their counsel.
On the other side of the fence, the Fianna Fáil leader's supporters want to "draw a line" under the controversy and move on.
They argue that internal party bickering will just turn off voters who want to see the Coalition take action on white hot issues such as the spike in the cost of living and the housing crisis.
Between those two factions lies a centrist bloc which wants the controversy to end, albeit its members are still raging at the embarrassment of the presidential race.
Many believe that for this row to be put to bed, the parliamentary party has to be more involved in decision making - more a bottom-up approach rather than top-down.
That might be the strategy which Micheál Martin adopts in the New Year to solidify his position - move beyond the recommendations of the report into the presidential election.
The Fianna Fáil leader doesn't need anyone to inform him that he's been damaged by this controversy and there's a considerable bloc within his own party which believes he is the problem.
The rebels will be making their presence felt, despite today's appeals for unity and festive cheer.
We just don't know in what form that will come.
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