Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

Nobody is handwaving away anything.

There is a difference between writing a court reference for a sentence and helping a paedophile get a job with children.

In the former case, the person will still be on the sex offenders list, in the latter you are helping him get around that.

A second point is that the incident happened in 2006, yet here you are referencing it, yet excusing the behaviour of Gerry Adams who did far worse back in the day.

I am glad that you have finally accepted that Gerry Adams did the wrong thing. I think we all now agreed that based on what he did, he has no place in Sinn Fein. You are on record several times in the last day or so stating clearly that anyone who did anything wrong in relation to child abuse has no place in Sinn Fein.

The day that Gerry dies, the truth will all come out, because the solicitors letters and the injunctions won't have any power anymore.

Own what you are defending. This is the Sinn Fein thread, talk about others elsewhere.

Of all the politicians that I have seen in my lifetime, and that includes the likes of CJH, there are none so despicable as Gerry Adams.

It is quite incredible that anyone with any shard of decency would accept his apology for that. Nobody else in politics has ever been shown to be quite so despicable as Adams in that cross-examination.

And that is before you consider everything else that he has had a hand, act or part in.

I hope that the debate this week brings a renewed focus on the repeated and recurring issues that Sinn Fein have had with child sexual abuse. MLMD told us after the McGahon issue that it was fixed, that it wouldn't be happening again, yet here we are this week with a repeat.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/sinn-feins-mary-lou-mcdonald-insists-she-would-have-told-gardai-of-ira-rape-allegations/31063420.html

Here she was in 2015 making promises, making claims of updated procedures. Yet, here we are, nearly ten years later and nothing inside Sinn Fein has changed.

"She said the party updated its practice in line with HSE guidelines in 2010."

No point updating practice if the culture of ignoring it and protecting child abusers remains unchanged. As the focus on this deepens the words of MLMD from 2015 will look hollower and hollower.

https://www.thepensivequill.com/2019/05/paudie-mcgahons-abuser-worked-with.html

This is not the first time that Sinn Fein have been guilty of helping a paedophile work subsequently with children. We had the well-known Liam Adams case. Lesser known is the Paudie McGahon case.

In this case, the abuse was reported to Sinn Fein. The local councillor reported it up the line and somehow, magically, a kangaroo court was arranged. At the kangaroo court, the kids were told that the man would be exiled. However, later they went to gardai and look what happened at the sentencing:

"On the day of sentencing, on the day of Seamus Marley’s sentencing, his legal team brought forward letters from people of support and one of the letters was from an institution in Dublin that looks after autistic kids and on it said he worked from 2002 til 2004 with autistic children – and not only that he worked at – he volunteered for the job. Now this is a guy that was meant to be exiled out of the country."

"Sinn Féin knew of that and he was working with autistic children and all over the world he was teaching English to children across Madrid, Thailand, China. He went all around the world teaching young children and the Sinn Féin party and the old IRA had full knowledge that he was not exiled in 2002."

Remember, Sinn Fein have form for this.

Most learned from their experience - Sinn Fein didn't, as we saw with the references being issued.

Obviously the guidelines were poor, no checking etc.