Sir, – The triumph of the Sinn Féin vote in the North must surely be making the leaders of the Coalition in Dublin more than a little nervous about what it is to come on this side of the Border.
The winners can only be ordinary workers and ordinary people as the Government parties will seek to woo the electorate in advance of a general election.
Will that be enough? The pandemic, like so many other seismic moments in our country’s history, has only served to highlight the inequality in our society.
We are not and never have been in this together! There is an appetite for change which will bite even further as the cost of living crisis escalates. The train has officially left the station and we are at the start of an interesting journey. – Is mise,
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KILLIAN BRENNAN,
Dublin 17.
Sir, – The situation in Northern Ireland has now become clear. One party will block the voters from having a functioning government unless it can browbeat the UK government, to which it especially professes undying allegiance, into an act of immense self-harm by reneging on a formal international treaty. – Yours, etc,
TERRY PATTISON,
Glenageary,
Co Dublin.
Sir, – Before we get carried away with Sinn Féin election euphoria, let’s remember that unionists votes totalled circa 350,000.
They haven’t gone away you know. – Yours, etc,
NEVILLE
SCARGILL,
Bray,
Co Wicklow.
Sir, – Sinn Féin’s s electoral victory in Northern Ireland is indeed a seismic event.
I think, now, about my paternal grandparents who left rural North Antrim and came to Dublin circa 1930, for they, being Catholics, saw little future for themselves in the North under a sectarian, unionist hegemony. – Yours, etc,
STEPHEN
McGARRY,
Ballycullen,
Dublin 24.
Sir, – Northern Ireland is changing, but not quite the way sensationalist headline writers would have it.
No other party has ever cut across the sectarian divide in such devastating fashion as the Alliance Party.
This is the real story of Stormont 2022 – a new generation wants new ideas, not old scores. – Yours, etc,
MARK BOYLE,
Johnstone,
Renfrewshire,
Scotland.