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Election analysis seems like exercise in navel-gazing

What, I wondered, did I miss about the north’s election by being out of the country? The first person I asked was far more exercised by Irish...

Fionnuala O Connor

THERE are few certainties in politics but it seems safe to say that the remarkable success of Sinn Féin in the northern local elections, coming in...

A few years ago, weeks after that vote that cut us all out of Europe (what a falling off was there.

It’s important and instructive to recall that there’s an EU out there which stands ready to welcome this place back as part of a re-united...

The Nigerian poet Jaachynma Agu wrote: “Don’t blow out another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine any brighter.

The dust has settled, the votes have been counted, the public have had their say, but the north remains in limbo.

So farewell then the SDLP.