Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

The desperation is very clear here.
Cowen's interview had every single opposition party and even his own party in uproar for days if not weeks.
Seems to me another female TD complaining about her treatment by an arrogant agenda driven journalist is today's news.

Maybe MLMD's term is coming to an end but comparing her to a drunken FFer is a bit cringe tbh.

She does Brendan, the host was smug, rude and didn't allow her answer…you could call him an 'attack dog' in fact. Guess who said this about him in the past?

Fair play to Darragh O’Brien.....ripped out Boucher Hayes a new one.

maybe if I got good odds on Oliver Callan the ‘sultan of Shill’or  Boucher Hayes, the ‘Sultan of Smug’ I might risk a brown note..

 Boucher Hayes and his attack dog Lenihan spend the last 15 mins trying to pour shade on the Government. Ok they are making a bollox of things but absolutely no balance....

Boucher Hayes for me comes across as an over smug individual

Yes, it was YOU Brendan. Seems all the attributes you complain about are useful when it comes to having a go at the Shinners.

But isn't that the game here

You try to rip out the ffg'ers and they do your party,why are you complaining?

You've also just presented evidence again that PBH is impartial,he treats everyone the same,and an attack dog interviewer

If SF perform as bad as yesterday with him on other topics,do you know,they're goosed

He may be 'impartial' but that doesn't excuse his overbearing and rude behaviour.

Again, he gave no chance for the interviewee to properly respond, made statements on behalf of the government he point blank refused to allow a proper reply to.

If you think it is a journalist's job to do that then you are part of the problem tbh. Imagine it in reverse - a journalist makes a statement on behalf of SF or The Labour party and refuses to allow that be contested…you'd be chatting about Pravda or such like.
BTW I have no great like for Catherine Martin's tenure as Arts Minister but I can appreciate her criticism of a screaming journalist intent on driving home his agenda.

Is there any evidence of you complaining when its not a SF person on the receiving end?

We cannot be pots and kettles here

I think he's an arsè by the way

She’s starting to sound like Trump when the media ask him awkward questions.

He made a statement on behalf of the government - that 'communication/consultation was taking place and that audits had been done (I quoted what he said verbatim earlier) when MLMD tried to counter that he flat out refused to let her, shouting over her and trying to move on.
To me that was when the interview went south.
He then got the the purpose of the civil servants totally wrong and didn't take kindly to being corrected…which was when she said he was being rude.

When MLMD agreed that the policy of consultation and audit was the same as the government's stated policy, any decent journalist interested in properly probing a policy would have allowed the conversation to go there.
What happened was PBH did not allow MLMD to outline what was different. As she said, what the government say is different to what they do in reality.
That is the nub of this. Lip service to addressing the problems versus actually addressing them.

They are chasing those votes though. At the very beginning of the interview before talking about consultation and audits she clearly stated that accommodation centres should not be placed in 'deprived' areas 'at all'. So in other words SF would not place centres in areas where their support is strongest and would put them where their support is weakest.

Sounds like chasing votes to me.

Yeah but,is there a community in the country that would say yes,there isn't

Meanwhile,you've 100's piling up with nowhere to go

So whats in the policy to deal with that ? Nothing,which leads us to @Bass Reeves 's point,it was never a policy but more of a ruse to tempt back the SF core that have been pyed pipered behind the tricolour usurpers wasn't it?

I don't envy SF head office