Labour candidates clash on Sinn Féin deal

Labour’s leadership candidates have clashed on cutting a post-election deal with Sinn Féin, as Joan Burton accused Gerry Adams’s party of still being in a "nexus" with the IRA.

Alex White countered by saying that while he “abhorred” Sinn Féin’s policies and past, he would not treat them as “untouchables” in the corner.

In the most heated exchanges of the first hustings of the battle to be tánaiste, Ms Burton said she believed there was “still a Sinn Fein/IRA nexus” and Labour should not “make up the numbers” for them in a future government.