A local TD is among a number of Fine Gael Ministers say they won't reconsider going into government with Sinn Féin after the next election.
It's after two polls in a row have Sinn Féin as comfortably the most popular party in the country.
Fine Gael says it won't enter into coalition talks with Mary Lou McDonald's party.
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Cavan-Monaghan TD and Minister Heather Humphreys thinks the two couldn't mix: