Drawn to politics

Sir, – Martyn Turner’s excellent and succinct cartoon in Saturday’s Irish Times (September 30th) raises the following question: is it possible that those who say they’ll vote for Sinn Féin at the next election do so confident in the expectation that neither Fianna Fáil nor Fine Gael would go into coalition with Sinn Féin?

We’ve often been told that the Irish electorate is very sophisticated and fickle, so reverse psychology may be at work here.

If so, the gauntlet is there for Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to take up by at least having a pre-election pact or even putting aside old ideological differences and amalgamating. Time will tell! – Yours, etc,

JOE HARRISON,

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