Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour) | Oireachtas source

In my opinion, Sinn Féin can have their brand of mock patriotism if all it involves is using every tired trick in their play book to tear asunder the hard-won stability in the public finances on which families up and down this country depend. It is amusing to find a common policy platform shared by Sinn Féin and the populist king of Bunga Bunga, Silvio Berlusconi. Both want to scrap property taxes - one in Ireland and one in Italy - and then hand the cash back. These are strange bedfellows indeed.

A party that claims to be of the left getting into bed, literally, with Silvio Berlusconi, poster boy of the right. Bang bang versus bunga bunga.

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