The Sinn Fein statement was almost perfectly calibrated to alienate all sides.
Because trust has been lost, simple promises to “fix” the immigration system will not work.
“30% of our Dáil team are women.”
The Church was anathema to local loyalists and had been attacked in earlier assaults on the Short Strand in the 1920s.
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Yet such an event would immediately shift the political ground rightward in Ireland by several degrees, and be a much better situation than that which faces those of us frustrated by the lie of the political land as it stands.
It is difficult – but by no means impossible – to see such a scenario unfolding.
Mary Lou McDonald has said that while immigration was “an issue” for voters, housing was “the issue” in the local and European elections.
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“Damaging.”
This time next week, it’ll be polling day, and the whole great circus will come to an end. At least for a few months. Thank God.