Haughey understood the ambiguity many felt about the Northern conflict. FitzGerald understood the yearning of middle class urbanites to be modern, European, more secular.
The leaders who will prosper now are those who intuit where the country really is in 2024
Mostly it’s just a great yarn. But consideration of their careers also yields lessons upon which today’s politicians could usefully ruminate.Haughey and FitzGerald both attracted intense devotion among their supporters, driving up support for their parties; at one stage, they were regularly getting more than 80 per cent of the entire general election vote between them.
For many people, of course, the advice to be their “authentic” selves is fraught with danger; for some it is plainly inadvisable. But the authentic Mary Lou – as seen for example during the 2020 general election campaign – has a good political track record. Whether she can recover that form is one of the most important political questions of the autumn. Certainly it is hard to see a Sinn Féin revival if she doesn’t.
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