‘Parties go back into their trenches’

NATIONALISM in the North has always had a habit of renewing itself.

Fri, 28 Nov, 2003 - 00:00
Harry McGee

The last great metamorphosis occurred soon after the SDLP was formed when it totally eclipsed the old Nationalist Party.

Are we now witnessing the beginning of another seismic shift? Sinn Féin has become what the Westminster elections strongly suggested two years ago the undisputed leading nationalist party in the North.

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