The Fianna Fáil leader says his party offers choice to voters at the next general election saying they understand the mistakes of the past and the realities of Ireland today.

Addressing the party's Ard Fheis in Dublin last night, Micheál Martin accused the coalition of being obsessed with trying to buy re-election.

But he says the offer from Sinn Féin is even worse - as they promise everything to everybody.

And he criticised them for 1916 - saying that belongs to no party or faction, but to all the people of Ireland: