This conversation begins and ends talking about Busáras, the much loved (and much unloved) central bus station squatting beside the IFSC, almost a protestor at door of the physical representation of financial globalisation. The conversation also begins 13 years ago. Sinn Féin had just been hammered electorally. In 2007 the party got 6.9 per cent of the general vote, bringing in just four TDs. The local elections were two years away. The party would not fare much better. Eoin Ó Broin rightly saw this performance as an electoral failure, and the future housing spokesperson of Sinn Fein wrote down his…

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