Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

Well, if it was a competition, who would win the encouraging people to leave the country to attend concerts one? Or who would win the encouraging gofing society outings one?, or the civil service department parties when securing UN positions one?
Governments, political parties and politicians as well as the ordinary people made mistakes or did the wrong thing. They deserve criticism and penalties if they broke the law.

It's not deflection it's 'perspective', Which you don't seem to possess if there is a shinner about.

The notion that there'll be any appreciable impact on voters because of a politician attending the Bohs-Palestine game is pretty far fetched. For it to be true you'd need:

1. A significant cohort of voters for whom Gaza is the defining factor in who they vote for.
2. Despite this, that these voters somehow haven't made up their minds based on the vast amount of political talk and action (and inaction) relating to Gaza in near eight months since Hamas' offensive.
3. That these same voters will however be convinced to vote one way or another based solely on seeing a photo of MLMcD at Dalymount the other night?

It simply makes no sense.

And I mean this to cover both pro and anti-Palestinian sentiment.

It's a good job social media exists otherwise I'll never know about them running over to the US , from Canada or Mexico presumably, to get huge donations from the anti-Palestine crowd. Can't find any such details anywhere else mind so I hope this isn't a misinformation campaign

What a load of rubbish and rewriting history. First off Sinn Fein stands for ''ourselves alone'' and was the named so to project a party that was set up to achieve Irish Freedom. Secondly FF and SF were on one side of the civil war as SF or the Irregulars. It split in 1927 when FF was formed as they decided to enter the Dail.

It's very simple:

Eddie Copeland

Brian Gillen

Gerry Kelly

Ted Howell

Martin Ferris

Tom Murphy

Gerry Adams

Danny Morrison

Thomas McMahon

Martin Lynch

If you want these old men running the country from 2025 onwards just vote for the local stooge in your area. That includes MLMD, the leader without a voice

A voice without a say would be a better drscription👍

I think SF have successful scuttled their chances of being in government.

They could never risk being in government. That would be the end of them as a party after a stint where they actually had to get off the fence and follow through on their many words. And people are sick already of Mary Lou. Imagine how they would feel about her if she were Taoiseach.

But you have to give them credit. Its very hard to torpedo your own chances in an election on purpose without looking too much like you did it on purpose.

No. Neither Fianna Fáil nor Fine Gael existed at the time of the Civil War, which was fought between opposing factions of Sinn Féin — a pro-Treaty faction led by Michael Collins and an anti-Treaty faction led by Eamon de Valera. The war ended in March/April 1923; some months later the pro-Treaty SF faction founded Cumman na nGaedhal, which in 1933 merged with a couple of smaller groups to form Fine Gael. The anti-Treaty SF faction continued to use the name "Sinn Féin", but split in 1926 over the policy of abstention. Fianna Fáil, founded in 1927, emerged from that split. Over the next two decades the rump of Sinn Féin faded away to almost nothing, until the IRA (which at the time had no formal links with Sinn Féin) decided to take it over and try to revitalise it.

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In these unprecented times, with illegial immigration / asylum seekers etc now in recent times at record levels, there are many reasons why SF is shedding votes and flip-flopping about at what must seem to you to be an alarming rate. SF old policy of "Brits out, Everyone else in" is not to everyone's liking. Unprecedented immigration is throwing fuel on the fire of the housing crises for one thing, and causing knock on effects with hotel accommodation in parts of the country for another thing.

Do you think Mary Lou has taken her eye off the ball, only three weeks from elections here, by going yet again to America at the weekend ( at least third time in the space of a few months?). it seems to have been a good BBQ she was at anyway, burgers were 5 dollars and hot dogs only 2 dollars, according to the media.

A picture paints a thousand words.

SF support is plummeting according to the trend in the polls.

Little over 2 weeks to the 7th of June elections. Which should be the best indication of support yet

I suspect SF will do well at a local and European level, maybe 30%-35% of the seats. Similar to GE20

Limerick DEM is still up for grabs, my prediction for Limerick is SF to top the poll but it will be either the FF or FG candidate emerging victorious as they will be the most transfer friendly. If I had to call it I'd say narrowly FG

Could all change if any party gets bad news mind…

Who is saying they are 'worthless' Clo?
Are you having PM's with someone because I see nobody who says they are worthless.
They are indicators of how people might vote, they are not 'votes' though.