Whatever else may have won Gerry Adams a seat in Louth, if anything has done so after all, it was certainly not any appeal to the 32-County Republic of 1916. He has made no such appeal, but has conspicuously avoided doing so, instead offering himself and his party as a "None of the Above" option attractive in the present economic climate and in the general stagnation of the Irish Republic's absurdly outdated political configurations, as bad as Britain's when it comes to giving any real representation to the views of the electorate.
If that party were still ever even really mentioning a United Ireland, then it would be as popular on either side of the Border as it was in the days when it did used to do exactly that. Its rise in the Republic, and its meteoric rise in Northern Ireland, have been and are wholly dependent on the shift to a position where it is no more in serious pursuit of a United Ireland than the Saint John's Ambulance Brigade is in serious pursuit of the restoration of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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