Sultan_of_Ping wrote: » So is it a PR stunt? Doherty didn't have to publish details on his FB account, the press didn't door-step him - he proactively published it. If, as you say, Varadkar's re-registering as a doctor is a PR stunt - is this not in the same category?
Sultan_of_Ping wrote: » I don't think that's how it works in SF - they don't need to replace her or have a stand-in because she's not really in charge.She signed a statement stating that “in all matters pertaining to the duties and functions of an elected representative, I will be guided by and hold myself amenable to all directions and instructions issued to me by An Ard Chomhairle of Sinn Féin”. All the elected reps did - so the ard comhairle, not McDonald run the show, and unless the entire ard comhairle is out of commission then no replacement is required.
Runaways wrote: » Have to agree there. He’d get nothing but crap no matter what he does. Comes with the role I guess but he’s more despised within his own party In grass roots than without. That’s saying something. Personally just nothing is sincere about the man for my view. It’s all optics and photo ops. That just isn’t leadership. And he’s a bit of a cvnt in person by most accounts but that gets you to the top in this world.
ThunbergsAreGo wrote: » Its a shame their local candidate is decent and is involved at a local level but honestly what is the point of them
Runaways wrote: » I personally didn’t see that tbh.
Runaways wrote: » I went with SD too and same as yourself. Can’t figure out what they’re about currently.
Gavlor wrote: » The fact that none of her party colleagues are deemed capable enough to take her place in the media speaks volumes. The worst crisis to hit this country since 1938 and the second biggest party have gone completely underground. It doesn’t inspire confidence.
markodaly wrote: » They were fighting for a UI, something that they didn't achieve. So, all those dead were for nothing.
SF vote share in the North has been dropping for quite a few years now. I guess they are becoming too like FF and FG :pac::eek:
Sultan_of_Ping wrote: » So, just to be clear, Varadkar re-registering as a doctor to do some assessments = PR stunt Doherty taking to Facebook to highlight his wife's return to nursing (fair play to her, btw) = Not a PR stunt. Is that about right?
Sultan_of_Ping wrote: » Well that means some people, a very few, will get seen that bit quicker - or maybe it helps free up another doctor to go work somewhere closer to where the clinical needs relating to Covid-19 infections are greater, it's no bad thing. Somehow, I reckon if Leo came out said "f&ck it, I'm off" and grabbed some scrubs and started doing 96 hour weeks in an ED, the same people criticsing him for doing this would be criticising him for abandoning his role as Taoiseach.https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/1247042027113586688?s=20
tikkahunter wrote: » Ah now francie she posted the videos herself at the time , her kids go to Scoil Cathriana where the first case was , she was the only parent to self isolate at the time , he new one is for a head cold
FrancieBrady wrote: » The plaintive and blatant lies ye folk expect to get away with. Just pathetic. Here she is saying she was withdrawing because she had symptoms. 26th March.https://www.irishnews.com/news/republicofirelandnews/2020/03/26/news/sinn-fein-leader-mary-lou-mcdonald-feeling-unwell-1880405/
Runaways wrote: » Know what is truly comical? You lot mindlessly falling for Leo’s every PR stunt. He’s going back to be a GP. ffs give me strength. That is actual comedy. Wish I’d been here for the defense of the letter to Kylie. I’m sure yis had a field day with that one. *correction. He’s doing assessments by phone. One day a week. Don’t we have enough staged photos of him on the phone? Laughable
ThunbergsAreGo wrote: » I think what does them no favours is there wasn't ever the numbers but also no other party has come out as potential partners. Now that's on the others as much as SF, but for all the talk of forming a "left block" it seems nothing has happened. The SDs come out and say they don't go in with FG or FF, will they go in with SF? Why not come out and confirm it? Same with the Greens, Labour etc. Feels like all the potential partners want to be opposition only. A month plus on and no block formed at all. I voted SD, there behaviour since means I won't be going near them again, seem to have no interest in governing
hatrickpatrick wrote: » I don’t believe for an instant that SF haven’t been just as active in pursuing coalition forming options over the last few weeks as FFG. The difference is that the media are openly hostile towards them and treat FFG as the “presumptive” coalition parties with disproportionately more coverage. The reason you think SF are doing nothing is because the media aren’t reporting on them doing anything. No more, no less. The election campaign and its immediate aftermath should have proven to anyone in any doubt that the media in Ireland are, by and large, just as hostile towards SF as the political establishment.
markodaly wrote: » Comedy gold right there. Keep it up lads, we all need a bit of humour in these times, and this thread delivers plenty.
FrancieBrady wrote: » That's what they were fighting for.
That's why the people of NI reward SF..
markodaly wrote: » Yes, SF/PIRA are all into human rights today. Pity they murdered a few thousand people recently though.
FrancieBrady wrote: » Civil and human right are only available to some it seems.
Runaways wrote: » The refusal to take questions now is worrying. Where even are they? You can piss and moan about SF in the papers or on radio.FG and Leo in particular nowhere to be seen
Runaways wrote: » If you don’t see he difference between appallingly timed photo ops and being seen to lead and informing and leveling with the country I can’t help you.
FrancieBrady wrote: » What?
tikkahunter wrote: » Is Pearse Doherty's wife returning to the front line a publicity stunt as well ???
tikkahunter wrote: » Your glorious leader ,absolutely no need to isolate the first time she done it whatever about the second time.
