Fox Hunting at Stormont? Inside Sinn Féin's 2026 Ard Fheis

Fox Hunting at Stormont? Inside Sinn Féin's 2026 Ard Fheis

On 24th and 25th April 2026, Provisional Sinn Féin gathered in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast for an Ard Fheis that revealed much of the party’s present condition. This was not the gathering of a revolutionary Republican movement nor even of a party seriously troubled by the constitutional arrangements under which it operates. It was instead the gathering of a party concerned with institutional reform, citizens’ assemblies, public strategies, de…