Fianna Fail and Fine Gael cast Sinn Fein as the wolf in the fading balaclava, yet those same two parties want them at Stormont

The Republic's election pantomime is going into its final week, with a plethora of parties and lots of bickering and slagging, fed by social media and TV debates with people shouting at each other. Northerners could be forgiven for looking on in unexpected bewilderment. Maybe Senator George Mitchell should come over and sort it all out!