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Daily Archives: January 28, 2019

Fianna Fáil-SDLP Partnership Highlights Challenges for Both Parties

Guest post by Dan Haverty, intern with the Atlantic Council’s Millennium Leadership Programme and graduate of UCC’s MA in International Relations. Party systems often seem rigid and immutable—until they are not.

January 28, 2019 in New party politics, Northern Ireland.

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