Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

If I was Simon Harris I'd be having the GE as soon as possible based on today's results

As a SF supporter, what do you think they have to do to regain the momentum they had?

SF's main problem is that they feel they can come out as the largest party on one policy only - housing. They isolated their own supporters on immigration and woke politics (which Mary Lou will not change position on) and so not doing better than they expected to do is probably down to their supporters staying at home.

MLMcD is going to have to demand more from her shadow ministers with policies that grab the public's attention.

If not then she won't be in government after the election.

Last time out they only ran, something like 22 candidates and returned 21 or somewhere around that ball park? You need 82 I think to have a full majority. Will they be able to find 60 more candidates for the general election and get them all in? I'm doubtful. In my opinion, they need to pick their potential coalition partners, Social Democrats and/or Labour I reckon, ahead of the general election and try to get voters to transfer kindly.

Take stock.
It's a volatile electorate at the moment. I think they did admirably to not chase the far right vote and they should hold to that.
They should, when the dust settles, realise that the locals are not a GE and get back to holding this government to account on the key issues of failure.
IMO they don't need a leader change for the sake of it, but a few others need to up their game.

Ideally it would be nice to have given the govt parties a kicking so they might change their health policy but if the far right had a rise I'd be looking to get out of the country. As it stands I'm just looking at health insurance policies so I don't get killed in UHL.

Definitely a better of 2 evils

I see so if he GE waa held the same day as the locals,SF would have done a lot better?

Yeah right

Friday was the ultimate snapshot of public opinion at the moment I'm afraid and Sinn Féin would be right to be worried about it despite your best face on it

My take would be the more obvious,the public can see through mass pirouetting and probably questioned how genuine or thrustworthy it was

I see so if he GE waa held the same day as the locals,SF would have done a lot better?

Still putting words in people's mouth's in order to have an angle.

I didn't say that. The undeniable fact is that in 2019 the picture changed radically after the LE's.
No reason in the world that can't happen again.
It might see SF decline further or one of FF or FG getting an overall majority. Who knows.

Yes I think per patient there's more money given to our health service than there is in the private healthcare service per patient. How is that do you think?

Obviously now there's no chance of St John's, Ennis or Nenagh opening and they're probably going to push ahead with moving the maternity out there so the private Bon Secours is probably our only chance in that area of not being killed while being treated

But hey, that's democracy for you 👍

Nothing like a global pandemic and all the associated delays in people seeking medical treatment followed by a huge growth in population to put strain into the system. But hey, the default approach in Ireland is to complain

Ah right, there was no crisis in the health system before Covid.

That's me told. 🙄

I didn't say it Pureza. If you are gonna spend another day putting words in my mouth I have no interest in anything you have to say.
As another newspaper said, FG and FF supporters are 'giddy' how right they are. Enjoy the moment,

FF/FG are the inefficient operation and access to our money is unlimited to their friends in the construction industry.

Putting words in my mouth again
I NEVER said I was an 'observer.
I have had no qualms and have not hidden I am a SF voter, in 2020 and in the 2024 LE's.

There was strain on every health service during the covid pandemic. It is notable that other countries were much faster at re-opening than we were, on last count we were 8 months later than our nearest neighbours in England. This to me is a testament to just how badly the health service is run here