Adams claims now is time for ‘genuine republican politics’

SINN FÉIN leader Gerry Adams told voters in Cork yesterday “there has never been a more necessary time for genuine republican politics” in Ireland as he accused Fianna Fáil leadership “of re-colonising this part of the country”.

Mr Adams was speaking on the morning that an IPSOS/MRBI poll in the Irish Times showed support for his party climbing 7 percentage points to 15%. In the same poll, Fianna Fáil’s vote fell by 7 points and Labour’s vote by 8 points.

Mr Adams, himself seeking election in Louth, was in Cork to launch his party’s economic policies. While he said the poll was a “good news day”, he warned that a general election was still some time off and that there was “a long battle” ahead.