Tag: Irish politics

  • Irish politics: past, present, future?

    Irish politics: past, present, future?

    By Aoife O’Leary McNeice (@aolmcn)  For the past one hundred years, Irish parliamentary politics has been dominated by two political parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. This is now no longer the case. Ireland’s recent general election saw the left wing party Sinn Féin emerge as the third ‘big party’ in Irish politics, gaining more…