Sinn Fein bigwig doing his best to solve housing crisis and all he gets is abuse
People calling for his head on Twitter. Get the feeling that Desmond has a senior leadership role within the party that makes him untouchable. Calling the shots so to speak.
Another fine upstanding republican.
The Ditch calling him a former PIRA member is running close to the bone.
Big questions for Louth County Council on how they let him away with renting out a house they gave him.
Just catching up with Doherty and Donohoe on Prime Time last night. Doherty is a strong communicator, but he’s hopelessly out of his depth when it comes to the realities of things like interest rates, bond maturities, corporation tax rates.
SF need to pivot to the left. They’ll be found out on the fertile middle ground.
More unfortunate news for Sinn Fein, however, better to be rid of another anti-vaxxer I suppose. Helps with the changing of the spots.
There's a few bright bulbs starting to shine the light into the murky corners of the SF cave, and starting to ask questions about how the entire party is being financed. I see the Irish Times reported a few things about landlordism amongst the SF "senior management team".
Now riddle me this, but how does a political party in Ireland manage to raise enough through bucket shaking, fundraising dinners in the US, and party subscriptions to end up owning at least 50 properties?
That’s a tough riddle Dr. has me bet into a cocked hat, so it has.
Easter lilies @ €2 a pop. Doesn’t be long adding up.
Good grief, she'd be raking any other party over the coals about this.
Not a normal party.
of course they are a normal party.
a mistake was made and it was rectified and owned up to.
Some people might swallow the constant lies coming from Sinn Fein but I don't think you should expect everyone else will
Wonder where they got the money to purchase so much property? Also, how many staff do SF employ?
A mistake? As in one?
Nearly every single election return from Sinn Fein over the last decade has had questions raised in the last few months. Bills not paid. Bills paid but not recorded. Different amount in accounts than in returns. That isn't just simple mistakes. That is systemic and systematic evasion of financial controls.
they were mostly all from 1 year as i understand it and they are then dragged up every time to try and thankfully fail, to drag sf through the mud.
This is just the latest in a long line of “issues” which of course SF supporters tell us we should ignore.
Personally the organised crime links are the biggest issue SF have and that is certainly not “all from 1 year”
sf don't have any links to organised crime or any crime.
individuals in the past may have committed crimes and were dealt with but that does not equal a link, because if there were links to organised crime then sf would have very little votes.
yet they have a good amount and are growing their voter base.
As I already posted, "Some people might swallow the constant lies coming from Sinn Fein but I don't think you should expect everyone else will".
Sinn Fein have watched how social media worked in US and the UK Brexit and copied it. The truth doesn't matter anymore, its the people who can get as many people telling the same lie it will become the truth. A lot of people still believe what they see online, especially if you have another load of people agreeing with it and don't bother to fact check themselves.
Google organised crime links and you will find some of the most recent.
listen i agree with you about social media and how it can be destructive in terms of politics, such as with trump and brexit.
however sf haven't told any lies as if they did lie i would in no way be supporting them as i have no time for liers and lieing.
as i said, yes some individuals in the past will have been involved in crime individually and rightly they will have been dealt with but i am satisfied that sf don't have any links to organised crime as again if they did, there is no way in hell i would be supporting them and voting for them as long as i have been able to vote which is a very long, long time now at this stage.
The links to organised crime are easy to find. If you want to ignore them that is your choice. I certainly will not.
The terrible record of the party in Northern prior and post the GFA is another reason why I won't vote for them.
to be fair sf's record in northen ireland is down to the DUP constantly throwing their toys out of the pram, in turn blocking sf from doing anything.
And to be fair, SF set the bar for tearing things down very low with the Irish language act allowing the dup to legitimately do the same for anything slightly more important than paying lip service to an under used language.
And yes, DUP and SF are equally stupid at this, but the DUP aren't trying to rule in the south.
The fact SF seem incapable of working with another political party either side of the border would raise alarm bells. At this stage if SF was any good they would have found a way to work with parties in North and South. Instead they are determined to bicker and showboat. How many times now have SF gone out and antagonised the DUP for no reason? children the both of them and a disgrace to the people of Northern Ireland.
whether the irish language is little used or not isn't relevant, the fact is it is entitled to the same equality as all other languages spoken in northern ireland and the DUP refused to recognise this fact.
therefore sf had to pull out of government to force the issue because the DUP would not get reality through their thick skulls.
the bar was not low or even set low on that issue, it was the final straw for something easily solved if the DUP were grown ups like sf are.
sf are perfectly capable of working with other parties, it is other parties who won't work with them as they are unable to accept that sf are a legitimate alternative, or in the case of the DUP, because dem uns.
the DUP would never work with any nationalist party, or any party that would be in favour of modernisation, but for the fact they are forced to do so.
As I said, now the DUP can pull down Stormont legitimately every time something more important than the Irish Language comes up (which is basically anything), what SF did was not grown up in any way and has impacted on their own legitimacy to govern, it was a moronic move on their part that they'll be paying for years.
there will be no effect on sf over their necessary pulling down of government.
the DUP were always going to pull out of government eventually, so sf can't be blamed in any way for their actions.
This is just you wishcasting, you haven't explained in any way how they can't be blamed for bringing down Stormont over small issues, you either need to explain how the Irish Language Act is a bigger issue than the Northern Ireland Protocol or agree that the DUP are right in keeping Stormont out of action.
My opinion is that both the DUP and SF are unfit to govern and act like children in pretty much all circumstances, either refusing to engage with other parties or blowing small issues up into bigger issues and ignoring the job of actually running countries.
SF are working with no party either side of border.
they are trying and making every effort to but are met with refusals all over the place.
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