The view from Clondalkin: If Sinn Féin don’t get in, ‘there will be marches’

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The last thing many voters in west Dublin want to see is a Fine Gael-Fianna Fáil coalition

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and Fine Gael, they have destroyed our country. I have family members who have committed suicide. I know five people over the last couple of months who have tried to kill themselves and it’s down to the Government. “I have a grown son aged 30 living with me in the box room. My daughter, she has a degree in social care and shares a bed in my house with her five-year-old daughter. My other son, who has a great job, could never afford a house – even to rent. He rents a room in a house. I’m looking at people dying on the streets.

“I feel like people don’t have hope anymore, and it’s only going to get worse if they aren’t going to give Sinn Féin a chance. We want Sinn Féin in government. OK, we might have to go in with Fianna Fáil but we would see changes.” “Bernie” , a former Labour voter, hesitated before voting Sinn Féin, “because of their past”, but decided it was “the only option”. Her daughter and two grandsons, aged 22 and 18, have been living with her since 2017 after the landlord needed the house they had rented for nine years for his sister.Her daughter sleeps on the couch while her grandsons take turns sleeping on a pull-out bed in a box room and on the floor by the couch. “The whole family voted Sinn Féin.

 

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