On the face of it, Sinn Féin’s formation of a left – or “Progressive” if that old snake oil still floats your boat – alliance on Dublin City Council on first sight might appear to be further distancing itself from the type of voter it needed, and clearly failed, to entice on June 7.
The evidence of both the European and local election results in Dublin (and elsewhere but we shall be mostly metrocentric for this purpose) would indicate that not only did Sinn Féin fail to recover from what in 2019 was recognised even by themselves as a disaster, but that they lost huge parts of their vote share in the 2020 general election and more significantly all of the subsequent and seemingly inexorable rise in the polls over the past four years.
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