General election: Three writers analyse debate between Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin
From left to right: Fianna Fáil Leader Micheál Martin, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald and Taoiseach Simon Harris. Photograph: Niall Carson/PAwas clutching a Ming vase with grim determination throughout. All three were so intent on not offering up a flub or a flounder for the meme clippers of social media that they ended up not saying very much of interest at all.has been displaying in recent days.
Many floating voters, having seen Harris’s now infamous petulance on the campaign trail, will be making a judgment call about him. Given that Fine Gael built an almost presidential-style campaign around him, and this has ramifications for the party’s vote share as a whole. Tightly coiled, he spoke a mile a minute, as though a podcast on double speed.
She also had the best lines; “you brought the crash ... and you brought austerity”, “there is political life beyond Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael”, “it’s raining really hard now for lots of people”. Harris’s lines did not connect. His persistent interrupting of McDonald emanated a brittle impatience. Two big things emerged, but both were omissions. There was no effective probing and no satisfactory answers on how lavish promises would be funded. Neither Harris nor McDonald would say what part of their plans would be dropped if the economic tide went out. Martin did offer to drop Fianna Fáil’s tax plans to better preserve the tax base. In what may have been an attempt at humour Harris committed Fine Gael to staying within the outgoing Government’s 5 per cent spending limit.
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