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Mary Lou McDonald was narrating the plotline but it was Pearse Doherty’s face that told the whole astounding story of Sinn Féin’s pre-election implosion. Sitting in his chamber seat next to McDonald, the party’s bellicose deputy leader in the Dáil…

Near the end of our time together in a Dublin restaurant, I notice that Anna Geary hasn’t managed to make much headway into her lunch. The huge bowl of chicken Caesar salad she ordered is still two thirds full. I…