Power-Sharing Pain and Promise | Belfast News

Emer Currie, TD for Dublin West and daughter of civil rights icon Austin Currie, reflects on the unfulfilled promise of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing system—30 years after the Good Friday Agreement—and shares how her family’s turbulent history shaped her political journey. Growing up amid security threats and violence, she found resilience in normalcy, eventually entering politics after a career in advertising, driven by frustrations with childcare and work flexibility. Now part of Fine Gael’s effort to craft a practical “blueprint for a unified Ireland,” she praises leader Simon Harris for openness to innovation and stresses the need for careful, evidence-based dialogue—not rushed polls—to navigate the complex, deeply divided landscape across both north and south.

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