Civil War Century Politics Ends With Obstacle



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Finagle’s new party first came out on Wednesday in an all-in-one sequined nightclub outfit.

This innovative development should have sparked epic scenes. It was totally historical.

But hardly anyone noticed.

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael performing in concert after a century of difference, who would have ever thought of it?

The last pair of them waved the lashes coming at the closest available talent. Waving bouquets scented with blossoming humility as she hung scandalous promises and muttered nothing sweet in small impressionable ears.

“Would you like to be buried with our people?”

Because that is what invariably happens to smaller parties when they are driven crazy by fast-talking political aggressors and offer an exciting and rewarding future. They bury themselves.

But surely one (or more) of them may think it’s worth the trip anyway. It is the world.

In the same way that Fianna Fáil is Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael is Fine Gael and the two will never meet. That has been the path of the Irish political world for its 98 years of dominance: high loyalty to one side or the other, with all other parties caught in the rift.

All that changed Tuesday night, when a century of tribal certainties was easily ignored, surprising political observers, but hardly registering with the pesky ones.

Most people have much more urgent business to worry about.

Intractable politics of the Civil War versus a global pandemic?

An old argument for struggle and development versus the pressing reality of life and death?

Do not answer.

In a brief joint statement by their two party leaders who broadly share the same political perspective but who have inherited opposing stories, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael stated that they were willing to work together in government if they could attract another partner to join the company and give them the numbers required for a stable administration.

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