Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has made an eve-of-poll call for people to turn “anger into action” by voting for his party in Friday’s elections.
Mr Adams said the only way for the electorate to get rid of the Fianna Fáil-led Government was to vote for Sinn Féin.
Speaking at the party’s last press conference before the poll, Mr Adams there was clearly a lot of anger among the electorate. Calling on people to make sure they used their vote, he said the “real say” now was with the people on Friday.
He declined to say how Sinn Féin voters should continue their preferences, other than to give preferences to candidates who shared his party’s broad republican outlook.
Mr Adams also declined to comment on a claim by Green TD Trevor Sargent that he had been asked by Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny to find out if Sinn Féin would be prepared to support him as Taoiseach after the 2007 General Election. Mr Kenny has denied the claim.
Flanked by MEP Mary Lou McDonald and other Sinn Féin candidates at the Spire on Dublin’s O’Connell Street, Mr Adams said he wouldn’t be commenting on what he called the ridiculous things said during the campaign.
