The political earthquake that was the awesome election victory announced last Friday of Sinn Fein’s Pearse Doherty began a few days earlier on the islands dotted around the coast of Donegal: Inis Bofin, Inishfree, Gala, Arranmore and Tory. There the small electorate of a few hundred people cast their votes, starting the tremors which led to the earthquake sweeping through the constituency of Donegal South West over a 15-hour period beginning last Thursday at 7am when the polls opened and continues to send political aftershocks deep inside the south’s political establishment.