A British election will immediately up the ante for an election here, particularly within Fine Gael. That is too late for a pre-Christmas election and it is after the three by elections Fine Gael wants to avoid. An alternative would be to leave the finance bill on the floor of Dáil and call an election anyway. To do that would require, in the tightest of political circumstances, the best election campaign Fine Gael has delivered in a generation. In the intensity of speculation about what election will be when, we might think about what our election will ultimately be for.

Source: Irish Examiner October 30, 2019 08:03 UTC