Fianna Fáil ‘open’ to negotiate with several centre ground parties post-election

Fianna Fáil would be open to negotiating with a number of centre ground parties post-election, Micheál Martin insisted as he pushed back on suggestions he was eyeing Labour as potential coalition partners.

Canvassing in Co Cavan on Tuesday, the Tánaiste also accused Sinn Féin and the Social Democrats of “insulting” the electorate by not publishing their manifesto prior to the first televised leaders’ debate on Monday.

Both parties unveiled their manifestos on Tuesday morning.

Mr Martin was asked whether his party and Fine Gael was looking to Labour, instead of the Greens, as a potential junior partner in a future coalition.

“I think fundamentally each party has to maximise its own vote,” he told reporters on a visit to a farmers’ mart in…

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