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ANNUAL 2025: OPPOSITION – SINN FÉIN’S NEW ROUTE TO POWER

Date: November 12, 2025 - Last Refuge

Following the Sinn Féin-backed presidential campaign, Mary Lou McDonald’s party has a more realistic chance of getting into government.

Following the Sinn Féin-backed presidential campaign, Mary Lou McDonald’s party has a more realistic chance of getting into government.


Sinn Féin is looking forward to 2026 in a far more optimistic mood than was the case last year. Then the party had looked on in bewildered horror as its commanding lead in the opinion polls – with 34% in October 2023 – shrank to less than 12% in the local elections of summer 2024…. Read more »

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