Fianna Fáil claims Fine Gael’s campaign of ‘fear and smear’ has backfired

Fianna Fáil has said that Fine Gael “threatened” the Irish people to vote for the coalition and expected a “coronation” but that their election campaign has backfired on them.

Delivering their last press conference of the 2016 general election, the party’s director of elections Billy Kelleher also claimed the outgoing coalition’s campaign of “fear and smear” had failed.

The comments come after the main opposition party has seen somewhat of a comeback in recent days, with support slowly returning to it following its disastrous election collapse in 2011.