Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael would make a strong, logical partnership

FIANNA Fáil and Fine Gael could be standing together outside the GPO for the centenary of the Easter Rebellion in little over five years time, according to Leo Varadkar.

In a way that seems strange coming from him when he was so trenchantly critical of Garret FitzGerald after he suggested that Fine Gael supporters give a high preference vote for Eoin Ryan of Fianna Fáil in the last European elections in order to block the election of the Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald.

Imagine a loyal member of Fine Gael suggesting that any Fianna Fáil candidate was preferable to Sinn Féin! The irony now is that Fine Gael are doing particularly well in the polls because so many disillusioned Fianna Fáil supporters are prepared to transfer to Fine Gael. Indeed many people in Kerry suspect that the unthinkable could happen today with Fine Gael winning three, or even four seats in the Kerry constituencies.