The Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams, in a speech in Mullingar on Sunday gave a somewhat ambiguous reply to SIPTU president, Jack O’Connor’s recent call for a common left-wing political project to present at the next general election. While Adams welcomed O’Connor’s call and agreed with the need for a ‘common anti-austerity platform’, he quickly went on to attack ‘the unrequited support given to the Labour Party by some in the leadership of the trade…