[Avalon Memories]

Hopefully someone who understands Irish politics will explain what this all means.

[1Old Pro]

Sinn Féin won 24.5% of the first-preference vote in Saturday’s election, almost doubling its share from 2016 after harnessing voter anger at homelessness, soaring rents and fraying public services.

Sounds like they are the socialist party.

[NorseViking]

A political wing of IRA - communists.

[MplsSteve]

Sinn Fein is more or less the political wing of the now most defunct IRA. They run candidates on both sides of the border for federal, legislative and local races.

They support the idea of a united Ireland. their ideology is pretty left wing.

Wikipedia has an surprisingly good article about them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in

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Three out of every four Irish voters voted for someone else, but since they have a razor thin plurality, Sinn Féin “won.”

They have to forge a working coalition out of other leftist parties to have a role in government. But their role with the Provisional IRA puts off a lot of people and will make it hard for them to cobble together a government.

Conversely, the other parties may try to forge a coalition to keep them out, we’ll see.

[rdcbn]

Nothing good