How much of the sectarian hostility suffered by Heather Humphreys was stoked by Fine Gael?
The answer may be very little, but the question remains so obvious from a northern unionist perspective that it is striking nobody in the Republic appears to be asking it.
For almost a decade, Fine Gael-led governments have pursued an approach to Brexit that has portrayed unionists as intent on breaching the Belfast Agreement, imposing a hard border and generally wrecking the peace process.
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All of these claims could most kindly be described as mistaken. Many unionists have been appalled by the misrepresentation of the agreement and their position, but all their protests t
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