Kenny denies Sinn Féin approach

June 4, 2009 by Infowars Ireland

Enda Kenny, Would not enter coalition with Sinn Féin

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has rejected claims that he asked Trevor Sargent to find out if Sinn Féin would be prepared to support him as Taoiseach after the 2007 General Election.

Speaking on RTÉ News at One, Mr Sargent repeated his claim, and said that at the time, he told Mr Kenny that it was a matter for the Fine Gael leader to talk to Sinn Féin.

Mr Sargent told a news conference this afternoon that he could not see what was in it for Sinn Féin, as Fine Gael was not offering a deal on policy or positions in Government.

He said he mentioned it ‘casually’ to the Sinn Féin leader in the Dáil, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin.

Mr Sargent said the only way he could rationalise it was that Mr Kenny must have had an experience in the Ballrooms of Romance in Mayo, when he asked someone ‘would you ask your sister would she go out with me’.

Mr Kenny said today that he did not seek Sinn Féin support indirectly.

He pointed out that if he had been prepared to do business with Sinn Féin in 2007, he would have been Taoiseach for the last two years.

He said the Greens were ‘in desperation and are floundering around clutching at straws’.

Mr Kenny insisted today that Fine Gael would not go into coalition with Sinn Féin and that it would not have a pact with any party before the next General Election.

The Fine Gael leader was speaking at his final news conference of the local, European and bye-election campaign, at which he said the only way to guarantee a change of Government was to vote for his party.

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