 Lynch then asked President de Valera to terminate their appointments as members of the government, a request that de Valera was required to grant by convention.Boland resigned in sympathy, while Mícheál Ó Móráin was dismissed one day earlier in a preemptive strike to ensure a subservient Minister for Justice was in place when the crisis broke.Lynch chose government chief whip Desmond O'Malley for the role.