40% don’t ever want Sinn Féin in power

DEEP uncertainty among the electorate about the credibility of Sinn Féin’s transition to purely democratic politics is reflected in the findings of the Irish Examiner/Lansdowne Market Research opinion poll.

The two key questions relating to the wherewithal of the republican movement suggest sharply divided views among voters.

Late last year, the Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern said it was only a matter of time before SF would become involved in government in the South.