SF must get to grips with reality

TALL, clean-cut and with boyish enthusiasm, the new TD smiled his way past the flashing cameras outside of Leinster House, looking for all the world like a smart young businessman in hot pursuit of a glittering career in the city.

But Pearse Doherty will represent Sinn Féin in Dáil Eireann, a party that has yet to come to grips with the reality of global interdependence.

That party’s lack of experience and its preoccupation with nationalism would render its input of little relevance in the current crisis.