Not for a hundred years has the world’s eyes been on Dublin as much as they were this week. Sinn Féin – which means ‘ourselves alone’ in English – swept the past aside. Formerly derided as the ‘political wing of the IRA’ their support in recent times was strongest in the Catholic ghettos of Belfast and Derry, and their leaders’ voices were spoken on UK television by actors due to an edict by Margaret Thatcher to deny them the “oxygen of publicity.” But Sinn Féin’s recent success at the ballot box in the south of Ireland has left the governing parties Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael reeling.
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