Spring: FG reliant on independent TDs will fail

FORMER Tánaiste Dick Spring, who led Labour into two coalition governments with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, has said a Fine Gael government depending on support from independents is doomed to failure.

Speaking in Adare where he was canvassing with Limerick (County) Labour candidate James Heffernan, Mr Spring said: “If we have a minority government depending on independents there will be another general election within 12 months.”

He said if Labour and Fine Gael have the numbers, there won’t be any insurmountable problems in drawing up a programme for government.