DUP and Sinn Féin will never bridge North’s divisions

Joe O’Toole: The parties’ tribal politics exclude a huge block of moderate citizens

Mon, Jan 29, 2018, 01:18

Joe O'Toole

Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill with the DUP’s Arlene Foster. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images

So the cards are being dealt out once again. The protagonists take their places around the table for the Stormont talks as Sinn Féin and the DUP restart their interminable game of political Snap. We know that game.

One plays the Gaeilge card and the other hammers it with Ulster Scots.

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DUP and Sinn Féin will never bridge North’s divisions

Joe O’Toole: The parties’ tribal politics exclude a huge block of moderate citizens

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