Una Mullally: The ‘middle Ireland’ Fine Gael thinks it is responding to doesn’t exist

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Una Mullally: The ‘middle Ireland’ Fine Gael thinks it is responding to doesn’t exist
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Plenty of wealthy 60-somethings have adult children living with them. The housing crisis goes beyond the less well-off

Varadkar would have known well that such an intervention – as silly as it was – would irritate Fianna Fáil. This is an indication of where things will go in electioneering terms.

When the time comes for both entities to uncouple in a campaign setting, it will have the flavour of the famous Spider-Man meme which features identically dressed superheroes pointing accusatorially at each other. Because Fine Gael has a tendency to lean into negative campaigning tactics, how is it meant to, with any authenticity, kick its Government partners? The electorate will merely respond: if you think they’re so bad, why were you in Government with them?

Yet Fianna Fáil will be very aware that the only way it can cling to power is with a grip on Sinn Féin’s coattails. That potential for Coalition is a bridge Fine Gael has long burned. Sinn Féin is popular, and Fine Gael will attack it more than Fianna Fáil – so it’s a safe bet who will self-immolate at greater speed in that battle.

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