They proposed an alternative coalition government with the National League, supported by Fianna Fáil, which had just entered the Dáil.

He afterwards explained that he had been opposed to the proposed alliance between the National League, Labour and Fianna Fáil, but did not want to create a split by voting against the party or by announcing his decision in advance.

[6] It has been written that two fellow Sligomen and Protestants, Major Bryan Cooper and Bertie Smyllie of the Irish Times "induced" Jinks to take the train back to Sligo that morning and absent himself from the vote lest his constituents discover he had voted for Eamon de Valera.

[7] Jinks resigned from the National League on 18 August, stating that he could not "remain any longer a member of a party from which my political outlook so distinctly differs".

[3] In 1928 and 1934, he was elected to Sligo County Council as a Cumann na nGaedheal and Fine Gael candidate respectively.