Editorial: Ideology appears no barrier on Sinn Féin’s path to power
The party has met with a host of influential business figures in recent times, suggesting it will not govern especially radically if and when it gets into government
The prospect of Sinn Féin entering government has resulted in both increased lobbying of its TDs and an outreach programme by the party itself to the great and the good of official Ireland.
Ideology is no barrier to who the party is willing to rub shoulders with nowadays, with property developers, multinationals, accounting firms and banks amongst the many meetings pencilled into the diaries of their frontbench TDs in recent months.
As revealed in today’s Business Post, a meeting between Mary Harney, the former Progressive Democrats minister for health, and David Cullinane, Sinn Féin’s spokesman on health, shows that the socialist republican party is now taking a steer from the most unlikely of places.
