It is not clear how to address the conundrum that confronted the party at the last election
on the Northern Ireland Executive completes the party’s reconfiguration north and south of the Border in the wake of last November’s general election.
The more substantial changes in Northern Ireland are a consequence of the decision to send party heavyweight Conor Murphy south to contest a seat in the Seanad, which he duly won at the weekend. His departure from Stormont sees Caoimhe Archibald replacing him as economy minister.
The strategy of moving political representatives southward has not always been successful. Former MP and MLA Elisha McCallion was forced to resign her Seanad seat in 2020 following a controversy over UK government funding during the pandemic. The scandal over former Belfast lord mayor and Sinn Féin Seanad leader Niall Ó Donnghaile’s inappropriate behaviour damaged the party in the run-up to the general election.
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