The outcome of the general election in the Irish Republic is likely to leave the government broadly unchanged, with the two leading parties Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael propping each other up once more in some type of coalition.
Mary Lou McDonald: “The dream of Easter 1916, sustained by generations of believers who faced the hard road and never, ever gave in. The realisation of that dream now falls to us.”
In both the North and South of Ireland, we see the growth of republicanism; the growth of progressive social attitudes among the rising generation; the increase in cross border economics and commerce; and a fragmentation of unionism in the north and ‘civil war’ politics in the south.
Sinn Féin activists are facing up to the prospect of republican led governments, north and south.
Sinn Féin have now replaced the DUP as the largest party in local government. Its electoral victory will accelerate political progress in Ireland, north and south.
The Framework represents the defeat of the anti-Protocol campaign. It restates the essential core of the Protocol’s outlines. The changes it makes are a rationalisation of the outstanding economic issues from the Protocol which will benefit the economy and majority of people in the north.
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