Paul Hosford: Sinn Féin will hope it's their pitch to the middle class that is heard loudest

The party's economic policy has something for everyone. But Sinn Féin could be tripped up over its manifesto proposal to review RTÉ's objectivity in its coverage of the Israeli genocide and other conflicts

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald launching the party's election manifesto, 'The Choice for Change' at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin on Tuesday. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

Ireland, Sinn Féin contends, is a country of haves and have not.

In many ways, that’s impossible to argue. We are, like many western economies, a country where some live with massive wealth and others worry about how to feed their children. We are a country with one of the highest nominal GDPs per capita in the world, but there are 14,000 people homeless.