tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888848804347928571.post3196041469655970362..comments2024-02-25T06:41:19.588+00:00Comments on Conor's Commentary: Has the Irish presidential poll damaged Sinn Fein?Conor Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13457628816008082005noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888848804347928571.post-37593475238754091672011-11-04T05:00:04.991+00:002011-11-04T05:00:04.991+00:00I think though, that McGuinness's candidature ...I think though, that McGuinness's candidature will have helped Sinn Fein in the North, where the Catholic/Nationalist sense of having been betrayed in 1921 will have been heightened by both the doing McGuinness got in the media and his bitter responses to it - which above all made him look alien to the South but which played heavily on the Northern bitterness.<br />And, of course, all the stuff about McGuinness going on about the"Free State Army" must have made him look like an ancient relic in the South but can seem like normal discourse in the North.<br />It is ironic that SF - supposedly the arch enemies of the "two Ireland's" thesis have now become its chief handmaiden.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com