Sinn Féin vows to double Dáil tally

SINN Féin leaders yesterday predicted they would at least double the party’s haul of TDs to 10 at the General Election.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams used a one-day gathering in Dublin to push the party’s health and education agenda as he dismissed the fallout from Tánaiste Mary Harney’s resignation an “irrelevance”.

Mr Adams said the party was geared-up for a snap election if the Fianna Fáil-PD coalition collapsed, but would not be drawn on which party, if any, SF would back in the event of a hung Dáil.