It behooves me, as a writer about politics and society, to try to analyse and make sense of these numbers for you, the public. But I’ll be honest: Buggered if I know what’s going on.
2015 flashback.
SF shifting position
“If it’s not good enough for where the upper classes live, then it’s not good enough for East Wall”: Dublin locals react to asylum centre.
“Not working for us.”
It was a speech for the hardcore Fine Gaeler, the kind of person who looks at the party’s record in Government and wonders why the rest of us seem so bloody lacking in gratitude.
With SF support
Smart move?
On some of the issues where the Government is most vulnerable – energy prices, refugees, crime, and so on – the opposition has no punch to throw.
“Fidel Castro was a great man.”
Former Sinn Féin Cllr
For some reason, Sinn Féin supporters get very upset when it is suggested to them that their party is not a normal one.