Fine Gael trying to pull off same kind of con job as FF post-Treaty

HE JUST didn’t get it. Fianna Fáil had campaigned against the 1921 Treaty with Great Britain, which established the Free State and allowed the North to opt out. But they had worked it ever since.

And in election after election since 1932, Fianna Fáil had been given a mandate to uphold a situation which they had opposed.

My 12-year-old scratched his head. Why did people vote for Fianna Fáil when they were working an agreement which Fianna Fáil was set up to oppose?