How to read the symptoms of a national disease

EXIT polls suggested that the Sinn Féin surge in the recent local elections was attributable in part to young, employed males, mainly from marginalised districts.

SF supporters, for reasons mainly but not entirely to do with an irrelevant and inappropriate Northern agenda, entered the count brandishing the tricolor.

There is only one national flag south of the Border - and it does not belong to or need to be flown here by any one political tribe.