Indeed, the alleged links between SF and criminality especially after the Dowdall debacle do need to be
investigated more robustly, you are correct there.
Hopefully these investigative journalists will get to the truth.
Voters won’t forget…… let’s wait and see.
Fair to say you are massively over estimating the impact this will have for voters. The link to Dowdall has been none for ages and has very little impact on the various polling number. In the same time, FG numbers have plummeted.
I just looked at it there thinking it couldn't be that bad. Then looked at Sheehan's feed it seems incessant and has a crusade air to it. In a sense it lifts the veil of the underbelly of SF and speaks to the real mindset. To me it is a case of giving them enough rope and they will hang themselves.
This probably the worst thing that could have happened SF will raise massive question marks among the young middle classes that SF need to get the majority.
Also this is extremely difficult for SF to bat off it is not the run of the Republican paramilitary stuff that SF can always brush off. This is Dublin gangland stuff, and it is the sort of demographic (working classes) SF think they have a hold on. But now they have to disassociate themselves from. SF are now caught between two stools, lie down with dogs and get up with fleas, Or dissociate themselves from the dogs and lose a lot of their bite.
So at best sf knew its members were involved in gangland crime and didn't care and at worst its party policy
if it was one a once off occurrence argument could be made for the former but the massive weight of evidence suggest the latter to be true
Unfortunately it is working. Look at social media platforms like this, or the mainstream media and you will see that they are applying the BMLMS censorship rule more and more.
They've been aping the MAGA playbook for a few years now.
"Mainsteam media is against us", anything negative is fake news, constantly attack the messengers, respond to any questioning by unleashing hordes of abuse.
They don't like it up them. Not one bit.
So we're to understand that senior administrators of Sinn Féin, who are still serving, did vett Dowdall and were aware of serious allegations and rumours surrounding him and yet still put him forward as a Council election candidate.
Seems to me that Mary Lou and her party executive have very serious questions to answer about their processes and their scruples.
Not too sure attracting the extremely angry man in his 30’s who spends all his time online is going to work out for SF.
Oh man just saw replies to Hugh o Connell and Fionan Sheehan tweets this morning, a lot of lads there need to chill.
"A major problem will be the rise and rise of Sinn Fein. “There is near-unanimity among interviewees that Sinn Fein in government in the South would be a major obstacle to a united Ireland”, says O’Malley. He quotes a range of people of different views on this. The Dublin TD Jim O’Callaghan, who has ambitions to lead Fianna Fail, says “one of the biggest obstacles to unification is the campaign of violence that was carried out by the Provisional IRA…It’s a deciding factor for a lot of unionist people in Northern Ireland who will not engage rationally with the topic [because of what] happened in the past.”
Sinn Fein is still seen as the political wing of the IRA, says Ulster Unionist leader Doug Beattie. “They still condone and celebrate the murders of the IRA over many years, some of the most heinous crimes imaginable: burning people to death, strapping people to bombs, blowing people up as they attend charity events. There’s a psyche in unionists who will just not give ground to the likes of Sinn Fein. If Sinn Fein became the largest [party in the] government in the Irish Republic, and they are the government, they will be viewed as a hostile government.” With Sinn Fein in government north and south, he believes “the whole balance of the Good Friday Agreement will come unstuck.”
They are also seen as the biggest obstacle to a united Ireland, as this article explains.
Up to the oxters in criminality. “Gangland”, diesel smuggling, tax evasion.
The Online Army have congregated on Twitter this evening and McCullagh is in their sights. There’s a lot of anger and bile on display.
I don't believe in coincidences.
SF made their statement, Mary Lou made her act of contrition on the 6-1. My guess is that's the last you'll hear from them on the matter.
The question is, whether enough voters give their head a wobble and remember that this is Sinn Féin, this has always been Sinn Féin and this will always be Sinn Féin.
Funnily enough The Tonight show on TV3 has no SF rep tonight that must be a first!
One could wonder coincidence or not… hmm.
Her ability to talk down the clock when asked a question is admirable in a weird kind of way. Her media handlers gave her the talking points, and boy did she keep to them. She even managed to finish the interview with some typical SF babble about the hard working people of the inner city or some such nonsense!
McDonald looked like she wanted to be anywhere else rather than where she was being interviewed by McCullagh about Dowdall.
The one silver lining to a Sinn Fein led government would be ensuring they would never get into power again, They’d be 10x worse than FFG.
I see Gerry Adam’s former friend and bodyguard, security service informer and member of the truly stomach-churning Nutting Squad has died.
Eoineen seems to have overstepped the mark here!
Probably thought himself and the squeeze could screw the taxpayer out of a few more Eurons.
Getting a tad careless here, is my opinion.
Paddy Cosgrove, the supposed millionaire, is offering 2023 euro for an artist to paint a giant wall of the image Eoin shared
What a miserable **** he is
If he added another zero to it he would be closer to what an artist should earn for that.
Well what would they do differently to drastically increase the number of new homes being built?
They dont have a plan.
And even if they ever did have a plan, they dont have the money not the resources to enact it.
What would make you reckon that's the case?
Genuinely interested as I'm not very well informed on SF aside from snippets of headlines.
Oh they think it, also not sure how many times I’ve benn told Eoin is the man to solve it
he wrote a book if you didn’t know 🤦♂️
I kind of hope they dont actually think that. More that they just hope it.
But either way, it wont happen.
Some people actually believe Sinn Fein will resolve the housing crisis.
I assume you are being sarcastic.
SF wont do s**t for anyone that gets out of bed to go to work in the morning.
As posted before on another thread don't waste your time.
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