Dominic McGrath | Contributing Writer Independence. The battle cry of this small island, north and south, for so long. Now, at least in the south, the battle cry is one of Independents. No longer, it seems, are voters beholden to the traditional political parties, their sheen of inevitability and dull reliability having faded in the last few years. The Dail is quickly becoming home to a voice of dissent, discordant, disorganised, but a voice that is reflecting, and perhaps widening a gulf between traditional party politics and the people of Ireland. To mutate a phrase from a short story I recently read by Colin Barrett, … Continue reading The Struggle for Independents