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Sinn Fein Still Has a Lot of Ground to Cover

  Photo source: Foreign Policy By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront There is a possibility that Sinn Fein, a political wing of an armed organisation, might become a party to the government in a European Union member state in the future, despite the fact the polls show them popular in only more than a quarter of the Irish public. It calls for a united Ireland and is more than an anti-establishment populist front. The party claims to reimagine itself as having an alternative vision for Irish people on both sides of the border. The people’s mood, despite its rise, is something different. It runs contrary to their unification and nationalist agenda, as per opinion polls done by the University of Liverpool Institute of Irish Studies, and Times Survey. These facts aren’t news for Irish nationalists, either. They, for over a century, have predicted the demise of the absorption of Northern Ireland into the Republic. Unionists are aware of this fact, and it gives them a chance to secure N...