Beyond the niche: women in frack-free politics
It might just be the alliteration, of course, but it’s rare these days that I meet anyone east of the Bann who doesn’t say, when I mention where I live, “Fermanagh? Where they have the fracking?” Well we don’t ‘have the fracking’, not now, though it’s been a close shave, and, to mix my metaphors, we’re not out of the woods yet. It has, though, been an extraordinary campaign, not least in the almost complete reversal of public opinion. Three …