Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

Again, as Alex Kane remarked no political party anywhere will want to push that one too far as it's a huge grey area everywhere with family members/friends and the faithful in employment. Again if a party has broken rules they should be sanctioned by the equivalent of SIPO. I suspect that the relevant body is also hampered from doing their job as it obviously is here.

I can only react to what is on the public record and what politicians say. The leader of SF has admitted here that her parties safeguarding and child protection protocols have failed. That is robust and breve leadership. Stand up and take responsibility and do something about it.
You 'believe' a lot of stuff but of course have no back up for a lot of your exceptionalist kneejerk beliefs.
No political party can fully guard against solo runs or wrongdoing within their ranks, they should however take immediate action and suspend not circle the wagons to protect those who have done wrong.

Albert Reynolds took responsibility for failures on his watch in relation to child protection

Utter nonsense, Reynolds resigned because the Labour party walked out, he tried to save his government to STAY ON as leader.

Please stop re-inventing history.

NOBODY in the SF leadership HID the child abuse of McMonagle. As soon as an investigation began he was suspended from the party.

Again you try to re-invent what happened.

Not to mention that he seems to have got the families involved in SF abuse cases mixed up. Understandable enoough I suppose.

You are a complete bluffer who will deceive and alter and people should be aware of that.

Spring led his ministers out of a cabinet meeting to consider the position of the Labour Party. The coalition appeared to be finished, but Reynolds still held out for the chance to patch things up. Reynolds went before the Dáil and said that if he had known "then" what he "knew now" about the incompetent handling of the case by the AG's office, he would not have appointed Whelehan to the judicial post.

However, Reynolds was damaged politically, appearing more interested in holding on to power than in the integrity of government actions. Spring decided he could not go back into government with Reynolds, and led the Labour Party out of the coalition on 16 November 1994.

It was apparent that Reynolds no longer had enough support to govern, so he resigned as Taoiseach on 17 November 1994.[20]

On 19 November 1994, Reynolds resigned as party leader, and the Minister for Finance Bertie Ahern was unanimously elected the sixth leader of Fianna Fáil.

Albert Reynolds - Wikipedia

I didn't say you did. I was referencing what some of the motivations were around this.

When it came to light that 2 people had written these references an inquiry was launched and they resigned.

You have to presume that it was an unauthorised action.

Nobody in SF leadership hid the child abuse of McMonagle?

Well, not mentioning the circumstances in which he left SF when giving a reference to BHF comes pretty close.

Those who hid the police investigation were Press Officers in the employment of SF not leadership.

This is more dis-ingenuous fudging similar to the Reynolds reinvention above.
Adams was held to account and investigated by the police and the PPS decided not to prosecute, a decision that in itself was reviewed by the Attorney General and upheld.

As you well know Francie, the thresholds for prosecution and resignation can be very different. (The fact that you obviously know this makes your post an exemplar of disingenuousness)

We need look no further that the current case for an example: nobody called for the prosecution of the SF employeess who gave references but they were forced to resign.

Francie Brady wrote

Those who hid the police investigation were Press Officers in the employment of SF not leadership.

Sean Maguire is SF/IRA royalty and was, I believe, head of the press office. In such a tight organisation as Sinn Fein, that's as close to the leadership as makes little difference.

As regards how widespread knowledge of McMonagle's subsequent employment was within Sinn Fein, I can't believe that in the two years from Septemeber 2022 nobody in "leadership" said "Whatvever happened to that McMonagle fellow, I hope it's not going to come back and bite us"