Sinn Féin certainly has a knack for the dramatic. Just when morale was sinking inexorably lower in the South of Ireland, Gerry Adams announces he's going to make an entry into the Dáil — if the constituents of Louth can be convinced that's a good idea.
When Sinn Féin first contested elections back in the eighties, there was much fearful chatter in the southern media of Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams standing south of the Border — and cleaning up. That never happened on the basis that Sinn Féin decided the new leadership in the Dáil would have to come from the South.
That never happened either, of course. And now, as the state stands on the precipice, the West Belfast MP is to cast the die again. There has been much talk of late of 'strategic interventions'. Alex Maskey pulling out of South Belfast to give Michelle Gildernew victory in Fermanagh-South Tyrone was one.
This is another. Time to fasten the seatbelts. Not for us Nordies; we are always prepared for a bumpy ride but for those in the South who have the Garda British Embassy mentality. And what exactly is that, I hear you ask. "Get back to the fucking North," the boys in blue guldered as they cracked the heads of protesters trying to reach the British Embassy in Dublin during the hunger strike of 1981. (There was never an apology for the brutality of that black day from the Dublin authorities. For the innocent protesters they pummeled, I mean, though an apology to the many democrats and republicans from the South also battered would certainly be in order too.)
The curse of Confucius indeed.
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Nior thug mé faoi ndeara go raibh aon ardú - nó ísliú - meanman de bhrí go raibh Gerry Adams chun seasamh i gContae an Lú. Dá dtiocfadh sé ó dheas ar chapall bán b'fhéidir go dtabharfaí faoi ndeara é taobh amuigh den chiorcal cúng a chreideann go bhfuil tabhacht leis.
Mar a bheadh le rá ag Mark Twain, seans, reports of his impact have been greatly exaggerated.
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