Is Sinn Fein going soft on unity?
Posted on May 26th, 2009 Conall McDevitt 2 comments Sinn Fein’s trapeze act, trying to appeal to electorates on both side of the border, is throwing up some interesting message management challenges. Last week launching their Northern campaign they said this election was all about a united Ireland. This morning the Irish Times asks if there is any difference between their policy on unity and that of Fine Gael? This from the paper’s report on an afternoon campaigning with Toireasa Ferris in Cork: If you scan through the policy page of her slick website, its major themes are democratic accountability, jobs, families, communities, public services, rural Ireland. You’ll traipse through at least 500 words before you even reach the only policy area that once mattered for Sinn Féin: the national question. Even then, it is so inoffensive that it would not look out of place in a Fine Gael manifesto: “The peace process has opened the way towards national reconciliation and Irish Unity. I believe
