Let us keep believing in a new Ireland The Covid-19 emergency has strengthened the desire for change that unites so many of us BY MARY LOU McDONALD The General Election of 2020 took place on February 8th, when we could still go to our jobs without fear, we could embrace our families, we could go to the pub to watch a match with our friends. The Covid-19 emergency has dramatically altered our world. Yet the political change needed to improve the daily lives of workers and families still
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needs to be achieved. February produced the most seismic election result in over a century. Large numbers of people used their vote to stand up for the basic principle of fairness. After a decade lost to ruinous austerity, an overwhelming appetite for fairness and change won out at the ballot box.
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