Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

What party have ever borne responsibility?

It's not in any political party's nature to do that and they don't, so it's kind of a moot point.

give them a fair crack at the whip. to be fair, we have no idea how SF would react in government in the republic. Im sure there'll be a 'blah blah blah the assembly' comments, but a handful of parties trying to run a small area with finance dictated by a different country is nothing like what we have here as a government. I'd go as far as to say the likes of the DUP would wipe the floor with either FG or FF so SF are already a grade above the competition. put them in government and if they **** things up, then there'll never be an argument for them again. call their bluff.

If you find yourself disagreeing mainly because you wouldnt want them to succeed then you have to start asking yourself if you care about the general good or only about yourself.

You are asking a question, then deciding yourself what the answer would be, and to this you make another assumption - but 'It's pertinent to the thread because I don't think they are capable of the kind of compromise and hard choices necessary to form a coalition government.' One of the main protagonists in the peace process and who helped negotiate and deliver the GFA - they cant make hard choices?

Thats a mad way of thinking about things is it not? Its all what ifs and what abouts.

What do Russia, Hamas and the Kinahans have in common?

Or you may feel that SF do not represent the best interests or "general good" of the state.

The main governing parties of the state were born out of the same environment and didn’t have the scrutiny and monitoring as SF have had as they morphed into democratic entities.

We’ll never know so why worry about it?

The past is another country and as long as FF FG SF etc never go back to what they did then what we have is the normality.

You could pick any figure in history and make the case they would be ‘abhorred’.

Not so ! Original Sinn Fein were decent men & women ! The swing to a hard left Marxist ideology flopped , now they masquerade as a middle of the road party ! What do you think about Maria Cahill & Paul Quinn ????

Fair play for being straight regarding Maria & Paul ! MOD has blocked me so I don't know if you'll even receive this message ! Does Mary Lou call the shots or is she still answerable to shadowy men , that's just one thing that scares me & it's probably enough to frighten the electorate away from a Sinn Fein majority government !

Sinn fein will form the next government with a broad coalition from the left ! It's easy to sling **** from the opposition benches , backing up all those promises will see them found out , especially if they're relying on jokers like Paul Murphy for support , a Blackrock education isn't what it used to be & TCD Is no longer a top 50 rated university ! The Labour Party in this country sorely needs genuine people like Tommy Broughton ! Anyway let's see how Mary Lou does !

if Labour go in with SF and PBP and something dodgy goes down that shouldn’t, as I’d suspect it might…. That could be the end of the Labour Party in Ireland as a serious political entity.

they have just 7 seats currently in Dàil Èireann. It would be a monumental risk for Bacik & co. They have ZERO room for manoeuvre.

Such as?

Are we talking, flouting SIPO regs, criminal inquiries, crashing the economy, facilitating Russian money movement, playing fast and loose with our neutrality, tents to wine and dine party backers, jobs for selected boys and girls and party people etc?

What are you 'suspecting' might happen?