‘Lots of money for consultants but little for disabled children’ says Adams

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has said his party is now a major political party in both states on the island of Ireland, where the political landscape has changed forever.

In his keynote address to more than 1,000 delegates at the party’s ard fheis in Co Wexford, Mr Adams said Sinn Féin was now the only real and credible opposition in Leinster House, where “two and a half party rule” was coming to an end.

During the televised speech, he repeatedly criticised the broken promises of the Coalition, claiming that Ireland had become increasingly polarised between the “haves” and the “have nots” who were ruled by an increasingly arrogant Government.