Claims of three-way contest ‘arrogant’

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams said comments from Labour leader Eamon Gilmore yesterday that the election is now a three-way contest had a “certain arrogance” to them.

Mr Adams, who is seeking a seat in Louth, also hit out at what he said was the Labour vision at leadership level which is, “a Fine Gael government with Labour in it. That will not make any change or any difference”.

Speaking in Dundalk yesterday morning where he hung up a poster of himself in the town centre, he said Sinn Féin would not be a party to “tie” itself on to another party as the Green party and Labour have done in the past. However he said it would be open to agreeing a programme for Government.