Sinn Féin had a very good election: very good but not outstanding. No party which increases the number of its TDs by over 50 per cent can be described as having had other than a very good election. The party also polled 295,000 votes making Sinn Féin the third largest party in the Republic. That said, it did not do as well as expected or predicted and predicted with good reason. In the 2014 European elections Sinn Féin polled 323,300 votes and a 19.5 per cent share. This time as well as the vote being down the share of the vote was 13.8 per cent, well below all the o[...]