Top 10 MEP is counting on Sinn Féin slide slowing

Growing, stabilising, or stagnating? They may not sound like eye-catching buzzwords, but for Sinn Féin the phrases and what happens over the coming days are crucial to defining the party’s next step on the long road to what it presumes will eventually lead to power.

A year after Mary Lou McDonald replaced Gerry Adams as the party’s president, Sinn Féin is facing its second election contest in the Republic under new management, after last autumn’s faltering presidential campaign.