Why the IRA might go political
By Annie O’Keeffe The 5 May UK election, which will return 17 Northern Ireland MPs to Westminster, will establish just what impact the months-long campaign by London and Dublin politicians and the media they influence has had on the standing of Sinn Fein with Northern Ireland’s nationalist electorate. >The 5 May election will in Northern Ireland be not one but two more or less entirely separate elections, one among nationalists in which Sinn Fein will compete with the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), and one among unionists in which Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) will...