The left wing party and political wing off the I R A have said that they'll be turning to smaller political parties to form a coalition without the two center right parties, which have long dominated Irish politics.

Champagne leader Mary Lou McDonald has pledged to get to grips with issues like housing on Health Will make fealty.

Editor of Slugger Total joins me now to discuss this general election making afternoon tea.

The real headline story of this election is that shin fame surge?

What's behind it?

Well, you know what?

I'm not sure anybody can say with any great certainty.

I think it's a it's a It's a perfect demonstration of voter volatility in the sense that just last May and European Election chimp in lost two of their three sitting any peace they lost nearly half of their council seats at council level on dhe establish wit wisdom would say that if it happens to you in the council election, with the last national election comes alone, then you're in difficulties.

This time the figures have been extraordinary in the sense that, um should only about five or six of sham fans.

Candidates are not going to get elected.

No party contests, every single possible safe because of proportional representation on some of those.

Unbelievably, some of those candidates one was away on holiday.

Several have never actually sat as a counselor, never mind as an MP, which is tedious, what an MP effectively is.

So this this surge even took champagne by surprise.

But if you ask me, really, they have put in a far crisper, energetic, useful on a Joe campaign on the two key issues, which were high rising housing shortage, homelessness.

So for surfing all of that stuff on a health service that desperately needs gripping on bringing into the 21st century, I don't those.

Although other parties, notably thin affording the formerly elite opposition party, were also campaigning on those issues there, campaigning never even seemed to wake up or getting get into first gear.

I think Mary Lou McDonald, really along with two or three other from Penn spokes, would really just boss the selection.

It's interesting, isn't it?

How Shen Feng have really tapped into these younger voters as well as its working costs.

Voters supports traditional support on what about its links to the IRA's historical links to the IRA.

Just as that played a part or it doesn't seem to have with younger voters who, you know, see, the party is a very distant from them.

Now that's that's part of history.

No, look, I don't think the direct links with the provisional IRA any Wray dates.

How much of, ah, saving, really?

Although members of the Provisional IRA had been involved in criminality in the North, that really doesn't affect the site.

The partition of the country really means that you've got two completely different jurisdictions that tick strikingly little interest in each other's business.

So I think that's true, except the one where I think it's, I think, on two things I think should be and became or acceptable in this election for more people than I ever did before.

And I say they're two reasons for that one.

There was the government, if you like cack handed.

Lee set up a commemoration for the old are I see that the police service before the guards Chicana on before independence and that went on really very badly.

I think Champion probably benefited from a rise and patriotic feeling around that.

And the other thing I would say, is Brexit Brexit really, really play dish in Finn's Republican credentials here.

I think some times in London, people don't understand that the whole population of the Republic of Ireland gets I TV BBC broadcast wrong from coast to coast on they listen to people like Boris Johnson on Dhe Andre Smog and some of the kind of ignorance around the nature of the border are the border splits communities that are kind of really together, and the integrity of that kind of single market breaking them up, I think, probably stirred a lot of, if not country oddity and certainly a degree of British anti British feeling, which I think is contributed to the sheer scale of champions success.

It's really interesting, Mick, What about Shin feign in government?

Obviously, they're not looking at the two major parties to other major parties to do a coalition deal where they're looking at independence.

What could we expect from a Shin Fain present presence in government?

Well, that's gonna be fascinating, You know that they're still talking about coalitions.

They're even talking about another election because they did run enough candidates this time of second.

The action might actually get them closer to being a head of a coalition that just completely safe lying to older parties.

The vehicle, enough oil on you may see protracted horse trading going on here.

That ends up in some kind of a break time.

So what can we expect to see from them?

But they've got They've made some big promises on Dhe.

They're going to have to make a fair fist off trying to be a close things happen on, you know, in many respects, Ireland has exactly the same issues with its own civil service is the British do because after Independence, Britain?

Sorry, I took the British civil service and basically by step with it with an Irish harp on dhe, getting things to happen through government, especially the way that should be in once it's a promise.

Something like 100,000 new houses in the next five years, it wants most of those to be built by the public sector.

It's gonna have to find new ways of on innovative ways.

Developing a new public sector housing sector when simply the country doesn't really have the capacity for that skill or really building.

Um, on foreign affairs certainly shouldn't get in ahead of anybody else.

They will have control of foreign affairs that will give them access the Brussels during sensitive trade discussions.

It will give them a greater capacity to speak with authority across the Irish border.

On, of course, what they understand from the polling in Northern Ireland days that the rougher Brexit is the heart of the thing you've given to Britain.

The more likely the population of North America is going to want something like a unified Arab.

So I would say if they get into that situation, I think lookout for difficulties Maur difficulty.

There is a run Brexit.

The more likely they'll get their primary strategic objective, which is to spring Northern Ireland free United Kingdom.

Okay, McPhee lt always good to get your point of view.

Editor of the online news website, slugger O'Toole.

Thank you.