FF must rediscover a sense for Northern nationalism
The party’s current attitudes to the North seem a very long way from those of the Haughey, Reynolds and Ahern eras
The change has been subdued but perceptible. In the maelstrom of current politics, with Brexit looming over everything, it is understandable that not much fuss has been made about it. But how many of you sense that the old understanding between Fianna Fáil and Northern nationalism, in place since the Troubles began, seems now to have changed fundamentally?
These days, under Micheál Martin’s leadership, Fianna Fáil’s traditional instinctive understanding of the Northern crisis ...