Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)

Since the general election, the most widely used word in the Sinn Féin vocabulary has been "No". North of the Border the party appears to live in some sort of parallel universe which is probably more akin to reality than the little planet its Deputies inhabit down here. It acts in a quasi-responsible fashion in the North in what is not a sovereign parliament but one for which Westminster is the paymaster. Given that its public representatives, North and South, get together every now and again-----

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