Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

deirdremf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122722654#Comment_122722654

SDs have no need of Labour TDs, because they are eating into their vote and getting their own untainted people elected.

Labour's membership is generally elderly and problem mostly close to retirement age if not beyond - so again not the right demographic for an up and coming party.

Labour's voting base deserted them after their participation in what was probably the most rightwing, uncaring government since CnaG in the 1920s.

Which means that SDs are doing grand and have no need of the parasites that destroyed Labour and turned the party into an irrelevancy.

Rosahane

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122723048#Comment_122723048

A bit like a confession extracted by the Inquisition I expect!

JPCN1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122722470#Comment_122722470

Standard stuff from SF.

What's shocking is that anyone is remotely surprised. McCartney, Quinn, Cahill… always the same, circle the wagons and protect the party. They were never fit to govern and thankfully after this they never will.

Finty Lemon

The happiest man in SF at the moment is Eoin O Broin. Having made such major stance as 'the man with the housing plan', his big reveal turned out to be a glorified 1st year college project. No traction with the electorate and thankfully for him, no serious analysis.

He will now be able to sidestep the blame if the upcoming election goes awry, and will claim 'if only it had been about policy....etc'

He is staying well clear of the current mess and now looks like the next 'Anointed One' for the Andersonstown cabal.

squonk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122723238#Comment_122723238

He is staying well clear but his wife isn’t. That’s a problem in itself. He may be the best boy in the class at the moment but she’s one of the people who had a hand in digging the hole the party finds itself in now. It’s not a good look fir him.

For Forks Sake

Focking hell , that party and all associated with it are devoid of any shred of common decency

markodaly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122721029#Comment_122721029

Stop digging. You are looking foolish.

markodaly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122721144#Comment_122721144

You are cracking at the seams and now engaging in self-pity with a dollop of MAGA style "It's the media's fault!!"

People like you are the problem of SF. You seem to exist in an alternative reality where you simply want to play by other rules but cry foul when called out on it. The longer people like yourself fanatically support the cult of SF, the longer out of power they will be as Irish people aren't as stupid as you seem to think.

RobbingBandit

However much you fault them SF have done something impossible they have taken the shine off of Cobalt…

For Forks Sake

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122723562#Comment_122723562

The only way that SFs week could get any worse is if Cobalt turned out to be one of theirs as well

hotmail.com

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122723562#Comment_122723562

The rumour is that Cobalt is a Sinn Fein TD.

squonk

It’s great SF have an abundance of concern for mental health now and couldn’t drag their deities through resignation woes. Te mental health of the families of the disappeared doesn’t matter so much though.

Danzy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122723567#Comment_122723567

Cobalt is a FG senator going by the gossip in Leinster hse.

markodaly

Sarah McInerney roasting the poor SF TD alive on RTE.

Also, SF TD just let out that the child on the receiving end of the text messages was a 'he'.

markodaly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122723567#Comment_122723567

This is what I have heard as well.

FrancieBrady

I was honest earlier on. The texting case in the north looked bad for MLMD but listening to what they actually did there and the reason for not saying it publicly I can see nothing wrong with what she did. Maybe the statement on his Seanad resignation was a bit over the top but if you are concerned with child protection you have to be mindful of mental health.

Textbook handling of it tbh. Report to the PSNI and Social Services, remove him from the Seanad and the party.

Finty Lemon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122723567#Comment_122723567

Everybody hates Chris

Jinglejangle69

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122723596#Comment_122723596

😀😀😀😀 unbelievable but normal serviced resumed.

extra-ordinary_

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122723303#Comment_122723303

Yeh…of course the 'decent' thing according to you is that MLMD should've had a 'quiet word' with whoever was in charge to say O'Donnghaile was a 'bad 'un' and got him sidelined.

That's the 'decent' thing to do in your book, is it?

pjordan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122722730#Comment_122722730

it illustrates SF’s ultimate loyalties and priorities with regard it how it views the “Free state” namely that such allegiance is secondary to its ultimate loyalty to the shadowy masters in Belfast or wherever who “haven’t gone away you know”. It’s always been evident in the mealy way that SF reps have suggested that any members with knowledge of a crime should bring that detail to thePSNI or The Gardai, when it were quite evident in so many of such cases there were any amount of people within SF and the Republican movement who had full knowledge of all the details and suspects in particular crimes but would never betray one of their own to “the peelers”. So they’ve only ever used The Gardai as a last resort when it suited their needs and after their internal mechanisms of investigation and enforcement had been concluded, just like they settled maters in the good old days up North. Now that’s all coming back to bite them in the ass. You can’t serve two masters, sooner or later you have to decide where your real loyalties lie.

Ha Long Bay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122723596#Comment_122723596

I hope you know at this stage your opinion on anything SF related is so biased that most genuine posters skip by it.

This might save you another 18 hours of deflection posting tomorrow and for the rest of the week.

Your defence\downplaying of this incident and the rest of them in the last few weeks is sickening but at the same time shines a good light on the cult so thanks for that.

nc6000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122723580#Comment_122723580

It was mentioned earlier that both complainants were hes.

I thought the SF TD actually did OK considering the circumstances.

Not made with hands

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122723669#Comment_122723669

In the Stanley case it's a she:

"The complaint made against Deputy Stanley is very serious. The complaint relates to an incident that took place in October 2023 and relates to Deputy Stanley’s personal behaviour leaving the complainant, in her words, traumatised and distressed," she said

Then the 2 male complaints against O'Donnghaile are male.

FrancieBrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122723669#Comment_122723669

You could see the slap in the face the government guy got almost physically when his ‘SF are anti everything’ spiel went down in flames as McInerney roasted it.
He kinda faded after that.

squonk

I’m starting to think Lynn Boylan is the other party in the Brian Stanley incident. It explains her wading in on Saturday and could be explained by her being angry. It might also explain the timing of the complaint in the first place.

hotmail.com

Anyone caught up to no good goes straight to the doctor to get a sick note about their mental health.

Not one person, apart from the doctor, believes they have mental health issues.

Clo-Clo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122723666#Comment_122723666

Ahh everyone ignores the gibberish at this stage

Well the odd time I need a laugh I look at it.

Its also been fun to watch the clearly paid for TikTok accounts going into overdrive at the moment trying to deflect from the shitstorm around SF. It's all crumbling down and SF answer is to flood TikTok with noise about anythign and everything to hope nobody notices MLMD and the party falling apart. Hilarious

Finty Lemon

SF trying to commandeer mental health as a cover story for their own ends is a further egregious act. Despicable.

FrancieBrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122723729#Comment_122723729

Several ignorant comments from you hotmail.
If you lived with a loved one with mental health issues you might have a little more empathy.
By all means have at SF but less of the hurtful stuff maybe? No need for it.

Clo-Clo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122723713#Comment_122723713

Plenty of information available on the web of the abuse and coverup by SF and by the PIRA, just need to find it. None of it which has ever been touched by main stream media or anyone really.

Plenty of stuff has hit main stream media just people ignore