:quality(70):focal(1248x557:1258x567)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WINL2IWDNRBWPFR6XJYEGYM2R4.jpg "‘Their opponents painted them as a bunch of flip-floppers’: What next for Mary Lou McDonald and Sinn Féin?")
It was a scene that played out in count centres around the country. A grim-faced tallyman at a ballot box. A tap on the shoulder and...
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1. It was the best of the three televised debates There wasn’t too much to compare it to. The Midlands North West debate was chaotic because...
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Bertie Ahern is not the only grisly ghost of Fianna Fáil’s past trying to rehabilitate their reputation. Cathal Haughey, a son of Conor Haughey and grandson...