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SouthBayDem

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3. Fianna Fail is the Irish conservative party

Reply to Polybius (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 3, 2024, 12:55 AM

Dec 3

in line with the UK Conservative Party or US Republicans according to this chart, while Fine Gael is a more "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" party.

FF + FG combined have 86 seats, while liberal Sinn Fein and Labour have 50.

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Fianna Fail emerges as largest party in Irish election [View all] SouthBayDem Dec 2 OP

Is this good news or bad news? Polybius Dec 2 #1

For whom? Prairie Gates Dec 2 #2

Fianna Fail is the Irish conservative party SouthBayDem Dec 3 #3

Lol, no they're not. Apart from the tiny far right fringe, most of the political parties in the Republic of Ireland are OnDoutside Dec 6 #7

Sinn Fein is listed as an Irish republican, democratic socialist and left-wing party. SomewhereInTheMiddle Dec 3 #4

Nope, you are mostly correct. They took the Good Friday Agreement because they were ultimately getting nowhere and OnDoutside Dec 6 #8

This is good news, as the alternative was destabilising my country. OnDoutside Dec 6 #6

So more of the same failure moniss Dec 3 #5

That's just not true. The government of the Republic of Ireland has if anything, done too much to help NI. OnDoutside Dec 6 #9

This isn't mainly about moniss Dec 6 #10