Senior Fianna Fáil TDs insist party will not go into coalition with Sinn Féin

A number of senior Fianna Fáil TDs have insisted that their party will not go into coalition with Sinn Féin following next Saturday’s election despite an ever-growing rumbling from the party’s base that such an eventuality should be on the table.

Speaking at the party’s headquarters in Dublin ahead of the final week of the campaign, finance spokesman Michael McGrath said that if enacted Sinn Féin’s budgetary proposals, which include massive increases in public spending and taxes on high earners, would leave Ireland a “very cold place to do business”.