An interview with Jason Michael McCann, a Scottish independence activist based in Dublin, discussing Sinn Féin’s recent electoral success in the Irish Republic, Britain’s reaction to the Sinn Féin victory, and the implications – if any – for Irish unification and Scottish independence. Not only was the Irish general election a serious blow to the two-party political system in Dublin, it also presents the British state with the very real possibility of having to negotiate with a country on the road to unity and in the hands of its former enemy during the ‘Troubles.’
Jason Michael McCann is a Scottish academic and pro-independence activist-journalist based in Dublin, Ireland. He is a columnist for iScot Magazine and publishes his own blog, Random Public Journal.