Sinn Fein can displace Fianna Fail

By Brian Feeney (for Irish News)

Can Fianna Fail ever come back as a major party in the Republic? Is it doomed to languish aimlessly like the SDLP searching for a role until it is extinguished as a political force in 2015? The events of the past week suggest the party is over.

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