Party’s vision of early Border polls followed by a united Ireland is in stark contrast to the new government’s approach
Sinn Féin is mistaken if it thinks Conor Murphy in the Seanad will inch us closer to a united Ireland
One of the individuals who facilitated meetings between top Sinn Féin politicians and leading Irish businesses, including the multinationals, over the past three years told me of his surprise at discovering the importance they attached to a united Ireland. “I felt they were prepared to make sensible compromises on economic policy if they achieved power but they were clear about one thing – a united Ireland is the prime objective and they will never compromise on that,” he said.
Instead, what happened was a sudden and precipitous decline in Sinn Féin support, which manifested itself in the local and European elections in June and continued into the general election. The old firm of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael held steady in the face of pressures from left and right and are now in a position to form a government without the need for a coalition deal involving a smaller party.
However, the Seanad is hardly the place to go about it. The upper house gets very little media coverage and, in any case, it is doubtful if the voters in the Republic will pay much attention to a politician who parachuted in from the North, particularly asappearing to condone the IRA murder of Paul Quinn in Louth in 2007 have already come back to haunt him.
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