Fine Gael are telling us what they will do in thefuture and Fianna Fáil want us to forget what they did in the past. For now, we’ll concentrate on the latter’s efforts to shed the skin of the Fianna Fáil of old. A current example would be the Fianna Fáil director of elections, Dara Calleary, on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland on Wednesday. It was the first Fianna Fáil ard fheis in four years, because of elections and leadership changes. Fianna Fáil did “make mistakes in terms of overspending and reducing taxation”, he said.

Source: Irish Examiner January 16, 2020 20:03 UTC