The amazing thing is that the Sinn Fein candidates were sent packing in the previous European and Local Government Elections by the very people (their friends and neighbours) who gave them massive majorities last Saturday. Because of those chastening results the party did not field as many candidates as they might have. Many of the candidates that they did put up received enough votes to elect a running mate had one been there.
Any Government organised with SF leading will be up against it from every side. I wish them luck because it is good to shake up the hitherto smug and well established "big two" (as they were)
It was the younger people who decided that their day had come and the history of SF and the IRA didn't bother most of them, they know so little about it all.