Eilis O'Hanlon: Sinn Fein actually doesn't care about getting women elected... it only cares about getting republicans elected

Orfhlaith Begley, the new MP for West Tyrone, is the first woman ever elected to represent the constituency. Anyone who isn't aware of that fact yet really can't have been paying attention. Sinn Fein hasn't stopped going on about it since Thursday's by election, caused by the resignation of Barry McElduff after posing with a loaf of Kingsmill bread on his head on the anniversary of the IRA massacre of 10 Protestants in the Co Armagh village of the same name.