Sam McBride: The unlikely slogan Sinn Féin soon might be using: Keep Northern Ireland

Party once vowed to smash northern parliament, now it is warming to idea of keeping it devolved in new unity strategy

Gerry Adams and Sinn Féin colleague Francie Molloy in Crossmaglen in 1994.

There was a time when Sinn Féin campaigned under the slogans ‘No Return to Stormont’ and ‘Smash Stormont’.

Increasingly, modern Sinn Féin is inching towards a once-unthinkable slogan: Keep Northern Ireland.