Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have essentially stolen the thunder of leftwing parties, writes Lisa Keenan and Gail McElroy, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, write in The Conversation.
Families were divided, brother fought brother, children denounced parents, everyone was a spy: Anyone from a country with a civil war or a Stalin or Mao-type purge in its 19th or 20th century history ...