Adams fires the first shot in the great coalition debate

The Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has opened the party’s debate on coalition after the next general election, at a conference of the party’s elected representatives in Dublin yesterday.

There are widely thought to be two views in the party – one which favours ruling out coalition with either Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael in advance of the next election, and another which wants to see what the party’s options are after the ...