Irish Examiner view: Shared Island project a low-key catalyst for agreement

A “Shared Island” unit has been established in the Department of the Taoiseach by Micheál Martin to create space for certainty to grow, for certainty to replace wishful thinking. File photo

America has voted and the counting has begun. When a conclusion might be reached is unknown. 

Uncertainty and anxiety are the order of the day, despite a record voter turnout and polls consistently predicting a change in the White House. That uncertainty may be unnerving, as was the inaccuracy of 2016 opinion polls, but it is far better than the certainty around the election in Ivory Coast.