Before we all get too excited…
sluggerotoole.com     Jul 24, 2008          

Just the thing to distract me from packing for the holidays… I’ve decided to pull this up from a comment to a blog. After the first flush of excitement the next questions are: What impact would a Conservative/ Ulster Unionist alliance have on the politics of power sharing? The move seems likely to provoke a quickening response on the nationalist side. Will the SDLP and Fianna Fail go tit-for tat? Might mergers heighten or reduce the border issue between the UK and Ireland as well as between the local party groups; or would they use them to develop the three- stranded relationship? Intriguing stuff. But there are big risks as well as opportunities in all... [read full story]                    


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