Matt Cooper: It’s the wrong time for Sinn Féin to push the EU on support for a united Ireland

The party seems tone deaf to how such a request from a wealthy member state comes across to other nations reeling from the Ukraine conflict

Mary Lou McDonald, the Sinn Féin leader, claimed that reunification ‘is being talked about in every town and city in Ireland’. Really? More than rising prices? Housing issues? Covid numbers? Picture: NurPhoto via Getty Images