Adams ‘would consider FF coalition’

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said he would consider any future proposal to form a coalition government with Fianna Fáil, while also describing them as “the people who caused the mess in the first place”.

At the opening of his party’s Árd Fheis in Mayo, Mr Adams said he was “not mesmerised” by being in government in the Republic, but that he would do so on terms that would build a “real republic” and a “just and fair society”.

He denied there was any political point-scoring involved in holding the party’s conference in the Taoisach’s hometown of Castlebar, where more than 1,000 delegates gathered last night.