“The decision on our island’s future lies with the people, not political parties”
I’m grateful to John at Nuzhound for linking a fascinating piece by John Horgan in the Irish Post. In it he pinpoints a question that has long puzzled many people. Undeniably Sinn Fein played a blinder in March’s Dail election. But as Horgan points out, it was not primarily because of their sound Republican stance on the ‘national question’. More often it was ‘burning bondholders’ or wry mentions of how Argentina escaped its debt problem, than any strong political kinship …