The accelerating fall in Sinn Féin support

Sf are already that. The righteous left wing urban elite- need only look at their leader and their front bench

Obroin and his ilk will en masse swap the Harry Potter specs and pronouns for construction gloves and a trowel!

I don't know anything but I know SF will gain votes....

LOL

Look at the momentum, SF is in decline because they are being found out, and they haven't even had a term in government. A fine achievement if I must say so.

If SF are as useless as they’ve proven in “opposition” then we’ve dodged a major bullet in never having them in government: they don’t want to be in government anyhow. They’re happiest behind a megaphone shouting about the far right and the evils of capitalism. Left wing student type politics is all they are

FFG are still likley to be in govt after the election.

yes this is a very possibility, but theres also the possibility of a sff one to, it clearly depends on vote numbers, and then of course post election agreements, again the referendum was very telling, polls are now truly unable to predict outcomes with any reasonable degree of accuracy, voter behavior is changing, with many now making very late decisions, theres very likely to be a very strong move towards opposition support, voter confidence is now there to do so, we need to prepare for this possibility. theres an astonishing degree of ignorance and arrogance towards some government party supporters here, theres a deep unwillingness to accept these facts, to accept government parties truly failed in regards the referendum, this is very likely to continue into the ge, a proportion of the electorate now truly doesnt give a fcuk about government parties, and it will show, to some degree, and again, at the ballot boxes, so they better get ready for the sting!

noting, im a greeny myself, and theyre truly fcuked!

that newspaper account isnt actually accurate but sure off ye's go with the gossip. Yes at the early stage they did vote yes on it, but that is because they had assumed their amendments would be discussed, which didnt happen. Also, great to see the lads again, telling us SF are going to lose votes. eggs and faces will probably the outcome again for those predictions (as usual).

"Finance Spokesperson Pearse Doherty said they had not supported the Bill in the Seanad and had voted against it in the upper house last June.

"We had raised serious concerns with this legislation right through the process and had tabled a number of amendments," he said.

"The Government in its arrogance refused to listen, not only to Sinn Féin's amendment but also to the other amendments that were coming from the opposition."

My prediction is SF would do quite well in an election, now they've been deserted by the right winged 'ireland for the irish' crowd that came from ff/fg.