Public cannot trust Sinn Féin until it starts telling the truth

Leo Varadkar, the health minister, has fired the first shots of the next general election campaign and warned that Sinn Féin’s failure to tell the truth about its past means it cannot be trusted in government.

Nobody believes that party leader Gerry Adams has nothing to answer about his past, he said last night.

Mr Varadkar — speaking at the MacGill Summer School during a debate with Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin and Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald — also said voters needed to think about backing Fianna Fáil and about “handing the keys back to the party that crashed the car”.