[New post] Sunday and other stupid statements this week…
guestposter posted: " 2023 and all is as it was... for example from the Sunday Independent today... If the Sinn Féin which might soon lead Ireland's government had been around in the 1970s, it would have been denounced by Gerry Adams as a traitorous, partitionist, capitali" The Cedar Lounge Revolution
If the Sinn Féin which might soon lead Ireland's government had been around in the 1970s, it would have been denounced by Gerry Adams as a traitorous, partitionist, capitalist capitulation to the popular mood; the antithesis of the willingness of the 1916 rebels or the Provisional IRA to disregard public opinion.
In the discussion about Sinn Féin's rise, there are those who view the party with dismay because of how it has not changed, and those who claim there is nothing more about Sinn Féin which needs to change. But there has been limited appreciation by either side of just how much today's Sinn Féin is a repudiation of the party which for decades was a pariah.
Is Micheál Martin really part of Ireland's future? Mutterings in the media that he is plotting a comeback as taoiseach should not be dismissed. Eighteen months ago when I was mulling over writing a biography of an Irish politician, Mary Lou McDonald was the outstanding candidate. She was young, female, mysterious, unpredictable and there was a whiff of sulphur about her.
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