What's the difference between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael?
- Politics
- Jan 22, 2016
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FG never better placed going into an election – but events can derail the best-laid plans
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The elephant in the room is its obvious compatibility of Fianna Fáil with Fine Gael
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Michael Noonan claims rival party’s manifesto contains a ‘massive deception’
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They now have one comfortable majority between them and if they don’t occupy that space together, it becomes a power vacuum.
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The party as likely to perform as well in the next election coming out of government as they are from opposition
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Civil War politics may be gone, but resistance to coalition within both parties runs deep