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We are well used to Sinn Féin cultivating the illusion that the Sinn Féin that has been administering Northern Ireland for most of the past two decades is a different one to that they are hoping to persuade voters in the rest of Ireland to elect to government. They have absolutely no shame in using […]
The opposition, of course, always wants an election. Or to be precise, always pretends to want an election.
How can you say to Unionists that you respect them and their votes while at the same time saying that their country is illegitimate?
If Northern Ireland is to have normal politics, then voting must have normal consequences.
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The Northern Irish political system is unique in the western world in that it mandates power sharing.
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The real problem here is that all of this likely means that the next General election will see a result quite similar to the last one.
On Thursday, the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWC) launched its new toolkit to tackle abuse against women in politics, calling for political parties to take substantial action to prevent female politicians leaving public life. Given that Senator Sharon Keogan had, just the day before, resigned from an important Dáil Committee because she “no longer felt safe […]