Leaving FG ‘Best decision’

Speaking to the RTE election broadcast from the count centre in Dundalk on Sunday night, independent Peter Fitzpatrick stated leaving Fine Gael was the best decision I ever made.

“I thank Fine Gael for the seven years I was a member of the party, but with Leo Varadkar there were just too many differences of policy’.

‘I still have a lot of friends in Fine Gael and I am sure a lot of them voted for me today’.

Asked by Rachel English if he would go back to Fine Gael he stated ‘no way ever’.

If returned to the Dail, he said he would be interested in being part of any independent alliance if elected. “I will talk to anyone’, he concluded.

Support for SF ‘ fickle’ -Nash

Speaking to Newstalk following his arrival into the count centre on Sunday night, Labour’s Ged Nash described the surge in the Sinn Fein vote as ‘ fickle. Like snow on a ditch which will melt’.

He added that people in Drogheda, Ardee, Bettystown and Dundalk voted for Sinn Fein to go into government and not to sit in opposition and not delivering upon their promises.

‘ They are going to have to turn a little into a lot of wine’, he concluded.