Jenny McCartney Jenny McCartney

The Irish problem | 20 April 2017

After years of administrative grind, Sinn Fein can feel an exhilarating sense of wider ground to be gained

issue 22 April 2017

When David Cameron called his Brexit referendum, the potential difficulty of Northern Ireland was not uppermost in his mind. Nor does it seem to have worried Theresa May greatly when she announced a snap general election this week. Even before this fresh electoral battle, Northern Ireland’s politics were already — to paraphrase Sean O’Casey — in ‘a terrible state of chassis’.

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