Campaigning against a party you have coalesced with in government for almost five years was always going to be tricky. For Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, two parties that rotated the office of Taoiseach and operated based on equal partnership, that job was trickier still. The Green Party could legitimately argue it had an outsized role in government policy, if, in hindsight, such a strategy doomed it to failure. The two main coalition partners, however, had to try and highlight their policy differences while claiming to offer stability and continuity. One of the key clashes between Fine Gael and Fianna…

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