Ireland - FF vs SF

Along with media statements today, I've decided to take a close look at the new crop of Independents. It turns out they are far more right-wing as a group than I'd been lead to believe.


McNamara, J. Collins, Pringle, Connolly, Fitzmaurice, are all socialistic in one way or another.

Grealish, M. Collins, and Murphy are anti-immigrant or otherwise right-wing

Nolan, and Aontu, are Anti-Abortion but otherwise left-friendly

Fitzpatrick, Lowry, and Naughten are former FG members

Harkin sat with the Liberals while a MEP

McGrath, and O'Donoghue, are a former members of FF

Berry is a former solider who campaigned on the disconnect between the everyday solider and the department of defence, but otherwise seems left-friendly.

Michael and Danny Healy-Rae are generally right-wing.

Canney has a slightly right-wing voting history.

Shanahan is seen as centrist but left-friendly.


6 - left (SF friendly)
3 - neo-nationalist
2 - left but anti-abortion
4 - centrist (FF friendly)
5 - right-wing (FG friendly)


Combined with what seems to be the prevailing trends, this makes a FF-FG coalition, or, at minimum, deal to support governance, much more likely.