Varadkar would rather leave Fine Gael than join coalition with Sinn Féin, he tells RTÉ documentary
When it was put to him that “the gun is there as part of Fine Gael’s tradition” as revolutionary Michael Collins sent men out to shoot others in the War of Independence, Mr Varadkar said: “He didn’t send people out to blow up chip shops. He didn’t blow up buses. He didn’t blow up shopping centres.”In an interview for the same programme, Tánaiste and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin leaves the door open to the party joining Sinn Féin in a Coalition Government.
“I will speak to everybody ... because I think that is what grown-ups do. I think that is the adult, and in fact the respectful, thing to do,” she said. Former Fianna Fáil Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said that Sinn Féin had to be given “some acknowledgment” for shifting a large proportion of their polices “into the mainstream”.
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