PDs question deputy’s call for an SF/FF coalition

THE Progressive Democrats yesterday issued a withering response to calls by a Fianna Fáil TD that they should actively consider going into coalition with Sinn Féin.

Cork senator John Minihan questioned Ned O’Keeffe’s views, which seemed to float the opinion that SF would be more natural coalition partners than the PDs.

The Cork East TD had told the Irish Examiner that he agreed with Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern that it was just a matter of time before Sinn Féin entered Government.