Sir, – Bobby McDonagh points out that Sinn Féin’s policy on membership of the EU has undergone significant development. Sinn Féin is the party of “change” in more ways than one (”Sinn Féin has come a very long way in its attitude to the EU “, Opinion & Analysis, December 8th). It has shifted its position vis-à-vis European-Russian relations since 2019 when one of its then MEPs suggested that the EU should be less confrontational towards Putin’s Russia.
Some of us are old enough to remember a time when the party was virulently anti the European Union.
Your columnist points out that in more recent times it campaigned against both the Lisbon and Nice treaties. If and when it is in government, it will have to decide what exactly it wants to “change” and what it might find expedient to leave as is. – Yours, etc,
MARGARET LEE,
Newport,
Co Tipperary.