Sinn Féin’s manifesto pledges to remove the fisheries base in Cork shows a lack of commitment to rural Ireland, a Fine Gael Councillor has said.

Minister Patrick O’Donovan has today (Thursday) published Fine Gael’s Blueprint for Supporting Rural Communities.

The Irish family farm model would be decimated by the Social Democrats plans to undermine farm succession and saddle family farms with significant inheritance tax bills, Fine Gael spokesperson on agriculture and Kildare South T.D. Martin Heydon has said. 

100,000 more jobs delivered in the last year is testament to Fine Gael’s pro-enterprise policy, according to a Fine Gael Minister.

Taoiseach and Fine Gael Leader Simon Harris has announced the party’s Older Person’s Guarantee which is a pledge to create a more secure future for older people.

Donegal hauliers are continuing to be fleeced by an extra Northern government tax, Fine Gael general election candidate John McNulty has said.

Sinn Féin’s long-awaited manifesto shows just how little regard they have for the people of Ukraine, a Fine Gael Senator has said.

Fine Gael Ministers Paschal Donohoe and Peter Burke have today (Wednesday) called on Sinn Féin to commit to retaining the €16bn that has been built up by the Irish Government, and its people, in the Future Ireland Fund and the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund. 

Fine Gael’s Minister for European Affairs, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, is calling on Sinn Féin to immediately withdraw its threat of a state-ordered review of RTÉ news coverage.

Sinn Féin’s alternative budget last month proposed retaining the temporary 9% rate for gas and electricity.  This proposal has disappeared from the party’s manifesto, a Fine Gael Minister has said.