Róisín Shortall is calling time on her 30-year political career. The Social Democrats, she says, is set up for the future In February 2023, she decided to step back from party leadership duties alongside her colleague Catherine Murphy, with whom she had led the party since its inception in the summer of 2015.  Then, this July, she made an arguably even more difficult decision not to contest the upcoming general election and to step back from politics after serving the Dublin North-West constituency for the last seven parliamentary terms.  Was there any temptation for the 70-year-old to take an eighth…

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