Nobody can accuse Sinn Fein of lacking political nous.
Their understanding of the political zeitgeist is second to none , their ability to encourage people to vote for them who never voted or contemplated voting due to the hard work done by party members on the ground is the envy of other parties.
Younger voters don't really care or perhaps are unaware about their violent roots and simply see them as simply a political party that they would like to represent them and older voters unfortunately are either ambivalent about their past or perhaps believe they've changed.
Their communication skills are polished and they come across extremely well in the media , there's little doubt that a lot of money has been spent on polishing such skills.
They have funds , perhaps of somewhat doubtful provenance , that no other party can match.
In Waterford David Cullinane was elected with a surplus of 10,000 votes and speculation is rife that SF could possibly take 3 of the 4 seats at the next election.
FF who are no slouchs themselves when it comes to sensing which way the political winds are blowing have opened the door to the idea of a possible coalition with SF.
As for their populist economic policies nobody ever has lost votes on a policy of taxing the rich to benefit everybody else and once in power the great readjustment can be made blaming of course the mess that they've inherited .
I am enthused about their promise to restore the tax credit for Trade Union membership subscriptions- not so much for the relatively small benefit but as an indication that we could at last see a party in power who would actively support pro Union recognition legislation.
Their understanding of the political zeitgeist is second to none , their ability to encourage people to vote for them who never voted or contemplated voting due to the hard work done by party members on the ground is the envy of other parties.
Younger voters don't really care or perhaps are unaware about their violent roots and simply see them as simply a political party that they would like to represent them and older voters unfortunately are either ambivalent about their past or perhaps believe they've changed.
Their communication skills are polished and they come across extremely well in the media , there's little doubt that a lot of money has been spent on polishing such skills.
They have funds , perhaps of somewhat doubtful provenance , that no other party can match.
In Waterford David Cullinane was elected with a surplus of 10,000 votes and speculation is rife that SF could possibly take 3 of the 4 seats at the next election.
FF who are no slouchs themselves when it comes to sensing which way the political winds are blowing have opened the door to the idea of a possible coalition with SF.
As for their populist economic policies nobody ever has lost votes on a policy of taxing the rich to benefit everybody else and once in power the great readjustment can be made blaming of course the mess that they've inherited .
I am enthused about their promise to restore the tax credit for Trade Union membership subscriptions- not so much for the relatively small benefit but as an indication that we could at last see a party in power who would actively support pro Union recognition legislation.