Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

end of the road

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122836088#Comment_122836088

commemmorating those who gave us our country over those who tried to brutalise it either in full or in part is what shows the maturity.

let the british commemorate their soldiers if they want, we should not be doing it, especially not at a state level whether that is the republic or the occupied 6.

dulpit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122836835#Comment_122836835

Every time you post your signature becomes more and more ironic

blanch152

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122836835#Comment_122836835

Gave us our country?

Who are "we" to own any country?

Such nineteenth century thinking is so outdated.

L1011

TG4 has a constituency poll which suggests Farrell in Galway West is in danger - any sensible FF transfers will see them get ahead of her, and its unlikely that she'll get much PBP, Green or Labour transfers on elimination.

https://x.com/NuachtTG4/status/1857138035139150180/photo/1

Losing seats, and people, like this is a disaster

Dr Robert

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122840024#Comment_122840024

She did really well last time so that was would be a big blow.

I'd expect Naughton and Grealish to get in and one FF. I would have said Farrell too but maybe that's not a certainty anymore. After that it'll be down to transfers for the 5th seat.

There'll be a fight for the remaining one or two seats in Galway West. Transfers will be key.

dulpit

Just an observation from somebody who lives in Cork - there are very few posters up with Mary Lou's face on them. There's plenty of Simon Harris posters up, a handful of Holly Cairns too, and obviously a rake of Micheal Martin (I'm in his constituency), but I've only spotted maybe 3 or 4 Mary Lou posters across Cork North Central and Cork South Central.

There's plenty of candidates posters from Sinn Féin, just noticeable that there's very few Mary Lou in comparison to the last election.

Is this replicated across country?

VinLieger

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122848710#Comment_122848710

I would say yes, I've been in Dublin and Tipp the past week and am very aware of seeing Harris and Martin's face uncountable times in both places and on the journey between, thinking on it I can't remember seeing Mary lous face once on a SF poster.

dulpit

Not necessarily a sign SF are in trouble, but could be a sign her leadership is?

mikep

Dulpit, Now that you mention it I haven't seen her picture around Tipp or north Cork either. Plenty of Simon and Micheal…

mollser

Probably not a bad thing from aSF perspective. Her moany hole approach to everything has long since reached its sell by date!

Dr Robert

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122848710#Comment_122848710

Mary Lou is in trouble.

She's been a failure in herself role and is banking on this election to save face.

Finty Lemon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122848710#Comment_122848710

Drove a good bit of the country this week- Cork - Dublin - north Midlands- and you are right. MLMD is conspicuous by her absence on the posters. Last time out she apparently was the reason some no-hoper candidates found themselves elected. If that's true, and the McDonald brand has faded, it's a big task for those TD's to be returned.

blanch152

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/mairia-cahill-sinn-fein-acknowledges-the-past-only-when-it-is-painted-in-a-good-light/a1663054712.html

Excellent piece again by Mairia Cahill.

"The character based on Adams is a repugnant mix of priest-like sanctimony and slimy strategist who sends others out to dirty their hands, before abandoning his comrades-in-arms in an act of self-preservation."

Sounds like an accurate characterisation.

"But why is she happy for Gerry Adams to canvass for her, when, in 1996, he sent his niece Áine a signed copy of his book in which he thanked his brother Liam in the foreword — despite knowing for nine years that Áine had accused Liam Adams, her father, of abusing her?

Why does the Sinn Féin party still revere a man who, whatever about his denial of IRA involvement, reported Áine Adams’s mother to social services for having headlice, but not her father for raping a child?"

When you see the questions raised about McGahon in Louth, they pale into insignificance when dealing with this issue.

astrofool

When is the SF manifesto due?

I'm awaiting the inevitable supporting posts about lessons learned (who knew you had to learn not to defend pedophiles and serial sex abusers multiple times?) and damp squib policies making SF the right choice when all metrics say otherwise.

Will they tackle the unions to improve the health service?

Will they spread the tax burden?

Will they have some semblance of a green policy somewhere?

How will they dogwhistle about immigrants while offering plausible deniability?

Clo-Clo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122850617#Comment_122850617

SF running scared, they know everyone is waiting for it and most of their "alternative budgets" etc have been a bag of spanners

They don't want to release it because the longer people have to pull it apart the worse it is for them.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122848710#Comment_122848710

Only leader posters I've seen so far are Martin and Harris. In the June locals there were Toibin ones also.

Zero SF and not even a lot of SF posters; none for the second SF candidate although I assume they've split the constituency and I'm in the town the incumbent is from.

Finty Lemon

SF housing document will get serious scrutiny this week.

Will you pay 360k for a house you won't own? Didn't think so

Do you trust a gang of builders guaranteed paid by the state to deliver homes at lower cost than private operators? Didn't think so either

Do you realise that running investment funds out of Ireland will increase housing shortages? Don't want to hear it.

OBroins ideas are built on sand

VinLieger

Probably terrified of having their maths completely wrong again like in the 2023 alternative budget

Brendan Bendar

Whatever happens to the Shinners I hope the electorate has the sense to scuttle Wallace and Daly from Irish politics.

Danzy

If Peadar Toibín was SFs leader they would be leading the polls now.

Harris not coming across well in this campaign, a narky bollix, as one neighbour describe him this morning and he was a FG cllr in the 90s.

Francis McM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122856741#Comment_122856741

"Narky bollix"? There were a few narkier bollixes around in the 1990s and the decades before and since.

I think Time Magazine is just after saying that "Say Nothing" is the must watch political thriller of 2024. Of course the leader of the pIRA in Belfast never had anything to do with the disappearance of Jean McConville and never was also the leader of a political party for decades.

https://time.com/7174152/say-nothing-review-fx/

However the son of Jean McConville gave an interview on Newstalk radio this morning, and it was harrowing stuff. Now whoever "disappeared" his mother, and maybe told the hungry kids she had ran off with a British soldier - until her remains showings signs of torture were uncovered by coastal errosion in Co. louth decades later - was indeed a "narky bollix".

Danzy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122857363#Comment_122857363

Did you reply to the wrong post?

dulpit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122856741#Comment_122856741

If he was the leader but only had SF policies then maybe they'd be higher in the polls. But if his own views were to remain they wouldn't.

blanch152

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/elections-2024/sinn-fein-promises-peer-review-of-rtes-broadcast-coverage-of-israeli-war-in-gaza-if-elected/a1113912647.html

And so it begins. The Trumpian approach of Sinn Fein to journalism continues. SF's chilling approach to control of the media and censorship is brutal.

Good loser

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122856741#Comment_122856741

Rubbish. I don't think even SF would be taken in by Toibin. Arch complainer, arch whinger, opposes absolutely every Govt policy with absurdly impractical alternatives. He's everywhere on the media. The idea that the Party he founded and leads could ever make any headway shows how poor his judgement his.

Danzy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122859159#Comment_122859159

He was a prominent member/TD for a long time, till he was forced out. Loom at fruit loop activist they had working with him I'm Leinster Hse ffs.

Will_I_Amnt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122859159#Comment_122859159

Arch complainer, arch whinger, opposes absolutely every Govt policy with absurdly impractical alternatives. He's everywhere on the media.

Sounds exactly like SF to me!

Economics101

Not only are individual SF politicians quick to sue RTE, they now want to review RTE's coverage of the Gaza conflict. This is the sort of media bullying one associates the MAGA types.

https://www.rte.ie/news/election-24/2024/1120/1481906-ireland-politics/

pureza

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122861664#Comment_122861664

I suspect that bit in it,is the reason it was not published until the day after the leaders debate ?

Clo-Clo

Seemingly SF are promising now a new budget in the first 100 days

A free for all budget

All the little minions on TikTok etc telling everyone how great it is

At least some of the comments point out that it would be the start of SF trying to cripple the country.