In a move rather less interesting than recent events in the Democratic Unionist Party, Northern Ireland’s SDLP elected a new leader this week. Under new leader Margaret Richie, the party hopes to find new life as an opposition to the Sinn Fein/DUP stitch-up that is the ruling executive. Some commentators still think it will collapse and merge with Fianna Fáil. However, as a microscope is currently needed to measure the popularity ratings of Taoiseach Brian Cowen, the SDLP might have more joy talking to the Republic of Ireland’s markedly left-of-centre Labour Party.
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