Local election results - Sinn Féin: What on earth happened to the party?

results since it became a significant player in politics on this side of the Border more than two decades ago.

Local and European election results: McDonald says it ‘hasn’t been our day’ as anger at Government benefits Independents, not Sinn Féin The easy answer is migration – that Sinn Féin has been caught offside with many of its nationalist voters who have much less liberal attitudes to migration than the party line, which is in any case hard to distinguish from the Government position. And that is undoubtedly part of it. But it’s not the full story. The slide in the polls started before migration became an issue.

McDonald proved to be a brilliant outsider, knocking on the door demanding change. But the next phase of Opposition and preparation for government – being a credible taoiseach-in-waiting – has proved much more difficult. How does she pick it up from here?

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