Comments on: Kavanagh on IT/MRBI poll http://thestory.ie/2010/06/11/kavanagh-on-itmrbi-poll/ Sun, 20 May 2012 19:29:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Gerard Cunningham http://thestory.ie/2010/06/11/kavanagh-on-itmrbi-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-12252 Gerard Cunningham Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:34:46 +0000 http://thestory.ie/?p=2320#comment-12252 See here: http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0614/finegael.html "The Labour Party leader has again ruled out the prospect of a future coalition with Fianna Fáil." "Speaking on RTÉ's The Week in Politics, to be broadcast tonight, Eamon Gilmore said he expected his party would be able to resolve significant policy differences with Fine Gael, in the aftermath of a general election, to allow both parties form a new government." The thing is, does it matter if Gilmore has ruled out coalition with Fianna Fáil? Did Labour rule it out when the Spring tide came in? For that matter, I remember Eamonn Ryan telling me the Greens would not go into coalition with Fianna Fáil around 2005. His reason? FF was too close to property developers. Interesting times and all that. See here: http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0614/finegael.html
“The Labour Party leader has again ruled out the prospect of a future coalition with Fianna Fáil.”
“Speaking on RTÉ’s The Week in Politics, to be broadcast tonight, Eamon Gilmore said he expected his party would be able to resolve significant policy differences with Fine Gael, in the aftermath of a general election, to allow both parties form a new government.”

The thing is, does it matter if Gilmore has ruled out coalition with Fianna Fáil? Did Labour rule it out when the Spring tide came in? For that matter, I remember Eamonn Ryan telling me the Greens would not go into coalition with Fianna Fáil around 2005. His reason? FF was too close to property developers.

Interesting times and all that.

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