When Aengus O Snodaigh first sought election to Ireland's parliament in 198...
DUBLIN - When Aengus O Snodaigh first sought election to Ireland’s parliament in 1987, he and his Sinn Fein colleagues were banned from speaking on Irish TV and radio for their connection to IRA militants and were a decade away from their first seat.
Early results indicated it had stunned the political establishment by securing the most votes in the national election. The left-wing nationalist party said it had earned a place in government with reluctant rivals that had for decades treated it as a pariah. The Sinn Fein showing in the election would have been an unimaginable prospect as recently as 2007 when they won just four of 166 seats.
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