Sinn Fein no go area

Sinn Fein have performed badly in the election, lauded as no go areas of coalition by the two bigger political parties surely did not assist.
Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern has said he was not surprised at Sinn Fein's poor showing. "I was always confident... when we got Sinn Fein into a situation where we were talking about bread and butter issues, talking about economic issues," he said. "People saw that a party that has a Marxist, a socialist philosophy is not really in tune, particularly with the younger population who are all working, have cars, go on holidays and are trying to buy a house." Mr Ahern said young people in the Republic were "not tuned in to a party with Marxist socialist policies".
Sinn Fein, which lost one of its five Dail seats, has been ruled out as a coalition partner by Fianna Fail.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said his party's loss of seats in the election was 'obviously a disappointment'. He said it was always going to be a difficult election for Sinn Féin and claimed that the established parties for months beforehand were trying to make the party irrelevant. Mr Adams said that in the course of the campaign it became a referendum on the Taoiseach and who voters wanted to run the economy.
He said all of the other issues that Sinn Féin put on the political agenda about public services, the equality agenda, Irish unity and the environment, are issues which the incoming Government was going to have to address. Mr Adams said it is unprecedented and very challenging to try and build in jurisdictions in a partitioned Ireland but he thinks that Sinn Féin is up for that challenge. He said that when it came to it, with a booming economy people decided that they did not want change.

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