People Before Profit call on ‘all parties of the Left’ not to prop up Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil in next government

Headlined: ‘100 years of FF/FG is enough,’ leader Richard Boyd Barrett TD acknowledged that PBP had previously attacked the Green Party and the Labour Party for enabling the two old Civil War foes to monopolise power.

It had also characterised Sinn Féin as not a genuine left wing party, he conceded. But now, he said, PBP would talk to any party that would rule out propping up FF or FG.

“We would like all the parties of the Left to declare their commitment not to (do so),” he said, adding that there was an opportunity for a Government not led by either of the traditional monoliths — which got less than 50pc of the national vote last time out, he noted.

Gino Kenny TD accused Fine Gael and its leader Simon Harris of equivocating on the call for decriminalisation of drugs for personal use that is in Fianna Fáil’s manifesto.

“I think Simon is well behind the curve on this one,” he said.

“It is bizarre that there is a Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil spat.

“I was Chair of the Oireachtas Committee on…