From a Bird’s or a Worm’s-eye View, Election ‘22 Changes the Picture Completely…
The votes are counted, most of them five or more times by now. Let’s not bury the lead. Sinn Féin has just done something that looked unimaginable ten years ago: it has, within two and a half years, won a plurality of votes in an Irish general election and followed this up with a plurality of votes and seats in a Northern Irish Assembly election. The world’s media is behaving a lot like someone tipped them off to this possibility. …