Sinn Fein’s Victory is Ireland’s ‘Brexit Moment’

Sinn Fein’s Victory is Ireland’s ‘Brexit Moment’ When Left-Out Voters Turn on the Elite
by PATRICK COCKBURN
“People wanted to kick the government and Sinn Fein provided the shoe to do the kicking,” says Christy Parker, a journalist from the beautiful but de-industrialised town of Youghal in county Cork. He speaks of the “chasm” between the elite benefiting from Ireland’s impressive economic progress and the large part of the population that has been left behind.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/17/sinn-feins-victory-is-irelands-brexit-moment-when-left-out-voters-turn-on-the-elite/