Eoin Ó Broin on why Sinn Féin’s support declined: ‘We have to get better at spelling out alternatives’

After its breakout election result in 2020, Sinn Féin’s support continued to rise for a time, but peaked in 2022 and has fallen since, if polls are to be believed.

On today’s Inside Politics podcast, the party’s housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin talks with host Hugh Linehan and Political Editor Pat Leahy about what he thinks lies behind his party’s apparent decline in popularity,

They also discuss Sinn Féin’s housing policies, including his opposition to certain Government schemes that support renters and first-time buyers, the reforms needed in our system of dealing with high numbers of asylum seekers, and the political landscape ahead of forthcoming local and European elections.

Eoin also denies the suggestion, recently made by Davy Stockbrokers, that Sinn Féin has more in common with the New Labour of Tony Blair than the socialism of Jeremy Corbyn.

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