Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

I wouldnt call it the ugly truth. The fact is SF have been sliding in the polls for months and the govt, especially FG since Harris took over, have been rising.

Logically, we would expect a GE as soon as possible, especially now the budget has been delivered.

yes it is, again, politics has always been this way, again, such decisions are partly based on the positioning of the opposition in relation to government entities, this is how politics works!

yes sf are sliding, and sliding fast, and ffg are rising, so therefore…..

an element of governance is about power play, and it makes complete sense for ffg to pull the plug now, due to the current dynamics, they know this, cause they know how politics works!

no evidence

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I'm not on trial here.

There are only 'false equivalences' if you try and twist and make exceptions for your politicians.

*There is nothing unusual about somebody not doing their job properly…in fact that is why most messes begin.

*Conor Murphy like me and I'm sure many others, assumed that vetting of all employees through AccessNI and DBS would be the norm. Turns out it isn't, which is a concern, if you are actually concerned about child safety? Murphy should have checked before, that I will agree with.
*I can understand how somebody's presence would not register when you are focused on something else. She wasn't focused on McMonagle as she would be now.

And she has the option to take civil proceedings but never has.

Her priority was to go after SF and Adams, which is fine and she is fully entitled to do that, but she can't accuse and allege without expecting to be be challenged.

. And by your logic everything said about Cahill is also true then.

What we can say is that her alleged abuser walks free and it isn’t a priority to do anything about that.

yes, we call this democracy, and its playing out in front of us, its very powerful, incredible to watch the levels of control that established entities and parties go to, in order to maintain democracy, including in the confidence and supply, helping to maintain this level of control, i.e. helping in preventing the creation of alternatives, democracy!

People have the right to vote for whomever they like. Its up to the people to vote in a govt. Nobody else.

If most people want to see a FFG govt returned, then that is democracy in action.

The thing they don't seem to realise is that if the two press lads had given character references for mcmonagle at his sentencing instead they wouldn't be guilty of any gross misconduct. Indeed we'd probably have SF and our resident poster defending their right to do so.

Now we are in the realms of the probable in an attempt to make reference writing for people you know are guilty of abuse something honourable.
It's possible to forgive the CC as he apologised but I would side with the victims family on that, but it's impossible to forgive the arrogance of the FGer who defended his reference letter

Did the Business Committee in the Dáil set a date today, anyone ?

I would defend the right of anyone to give a character reference in court no matter how nauseating, reprehensible, or dishonourable that might be to someone else. The courts themselves defend the right for them to be given. Are you against this right and think people who give them should be sanctioned or disciplined in any way? Yes or no?