Why would John Swinney not intend to “woo” Sinn Féin? There is nothing in that party’s long record in office in Northern Ireland to suggest that it was remotely out of sympathy with his own Greenery and wokery, pro-austerity and pro-war. Quite the reverse, in fact. And who of that mind does not woo Sinn Féin? Note for future reference that the Green Party is revisiting its republicanism. It knows its own.
But the Irish Republic has as impregnable cordon sanitaire. Wake up and hear The Hum when even Michael Healy-Rae was a Minister until he chose to resign a few days ago, yet no Minister may ever be appointed from the party of the First Minister of Northern Ireland.
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