While at least some of the parties resist being defined as left or right wing, it could be broadly said that the Labour Party and Sinn Fein lean at various degrees to the left, Finn Gael leans to the right and Fianna Fail is centre-right. Some of the parties will quibble with this!
Fianna Fail, the dominant political party in the Republic of Ireland since the 1930s. Constituted in May 1926, it comprised opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921) that had brought the Irish Free State into existence. It was established and led by Eam