Fianna Fail emerges as largest party in Irish election

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9. That's just not true. The government of the Republic of Ireland has if anything, done too much to help NI.

SF have deliberately obstructed the economy in NI, to put a huge economic cost on the UK exchequer, and then blamed everyone else (that's not to absolve the DUP in anyway either) but they cry bitter tears when NI has a housing backlog that will take 50 years to clear, so they can go shove it.

SF would be far better served knuckling down to build bridges with unionists and improve the NI economy rather than coming whinging to us in the Republic, where we've moved on and don't care about nationalist moaning.

The housing crisis is a problem in every country in the West, this isn't solely a problem in the Republic. They are taking steps to ramp up house building but it will take time. There were 9,000 new apprenticeships taken on last year from a low base, and it was a low base because no one wanted to buy a house from 2011 to 2020. We lost a load of trades through retirements/downsizing and emigration.