Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

Look, the news paper articles quoting what everyone heard on election night, including on here are on google. He opened the door to SF when he thought he was gonna have a clear seat marjority. He also said he’d never coalesce with FG. He did because it was his only chance to be Taoiseach.

Has a habit of ‘changing his mind’ when it’s something he wants.
He has no interest in making FF a distinct party, that is also for sure.

Oh like most in both parties,he very much does believe in the distinction

You need to avoid mixing up the coincidence of the centre ground with mergers

Great result in Dublin there btw,4 very good mep's elected including Lyn Boylan

I'd feel a bit sorry for Ciarán Cuffe

Now lets hope Funchion or Grace can knock out theother Moscow waster in South

Amazing coincidence that Boylan in her interview repeated verbatim 'the fact is SF increased their number of seats in the LEs' exactly as posted by a couple of posters here today.

The wagons have been well and truly circled.

🤣 SF is who he said he would never go into power with not anyone else and I think he was brave enough to say exactly why and put his cards on the table at least people knew where they stood with him even if they didn’t agree.

I never denied any links to the IRA Clo.
Not once.

I was laughing at the absurdity of the concept, a disparate bunch of very opinionated people 'controlled' in everything they say and do from back rooms in Belfast.
I sometimes think the purveyors of this theory have never met a Shinner. I know plenty where I live and not one of them strike me as a person who could be 'controlled' unless they wanted to be.

It's a handy 'scare' accusation for the other parties and we see it whenever SF rise in the polls but then so are fairy tales, they too were designed to keep children in line.

Are you sure it is not you whose thinking is being 'controlled'?

Some accusation about the Gardai there.

If a political party has 'links' to organised crime and you or a journalist have evidence of this how come they are allowed to continue to operate as politicians and as a political party?
How come an International Agreement still stands if one of those signed up to it is 'linked to organised' crime?

I know you will run off here shouting about 100 posts or 'snide remarks' when that is not happening but those questions remain for you. You are using insinuation like a parent uses a fairy tale. Nothing snide about saying that.

30 years ago you could be shot dead by the 'lawful' forces just for being in SF.

That doesn't happen anymore because the war/conflict is thankfully over.

You want to continue to live back in those days when it suits you.

The idea that everything many diiferent party members are saying or doing is 'controlled' from a central point is absurd and doesn't even make logistical or practical sense.
Do ex IRA members have input into SF, certainly they do because that is what we as a people asked them to do in the GFA.
The GFA was not an á la carte menu. You cannot install glass ceilings and pretend to be a democrat.

Absolute bull unless other party’s are also not normal.
How many failed elections did Leo Varadkar have? Didn’t he take them from 35% in the polls to hovering around 20%?

Despite the friskiness of FG FF supporters here both of their leaders have presided over LE’s that saw the coalition party’s vote decline with the junior partner’s vote decimated and they also lost both their MEPs

SF’s long term plan will not be seeking your approval not sure why you are bothered about it.

They are not looking approval from inveterate critics with track records like some on here have. They will like other democrats put their plans in front of the electorate and seek to persuade.

How do you negotiate a programme for government when so called democrats close ranks and refuse to talk or negotiate?

Utter ‘suit yourself’ definitions of ‘failure’ employed too.

A voter for SF? Never hid the fact.

Dislike for the continual swapping of power between FG and FF - never hid the fact.
Astroturfs demands would be akin to me making the same of FG or FF.

If a FG or FF leader is making a mess and failing the party in garnering support, let them at it IMO