Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

And it is dawning with an absolute train wreck of an interview with Mary Wilson on Morning Ireland, as I write

You'll note she also said that nobody knows if the allegations meet a criminal threshold, that now rests with the Gardai.
Stanley was given a chance to refute or present contradictory evidence (Deadline was this morning) as is his right, he walked instead, what happens him now is not for SF to decide.

No wagons were circled to protect a high flyer here.

I felt sorry for her. With her and her husband's health issues etc.

She said she thinks the complainant hasn't made a complaint to gardai. So if the complaint was a massively serious matter then I'd imagine it would have gone to the gardai a long time ago.

And if the complaint hasn't gone to the gardai what right do SF have to refer the matter ? Did they only refer it after Stanley said he was jumping?

The Northern SF and the Southern SF are causing each other massive issues.

Simon Harris is in Dreamland.

Stanley was getting elected for SF down the country long before they became hip and popular with the new SF kids. Bad times ahead for them. Will his wife now leave SF?

If it’s serious enough to warrant a Gardai investigation yesterday then it was serious enough to warrant a Gardai investigation last week or in August.

SF circled the wagons on their own institution and Kangaroo Courtesque inquiries.

If they did anything criminal, they should be.

If you ask, did MLMD protect the party from the fallout by circling the wagons, denying wrongdoing on the part of the member, point to the upstanding record of the member, blame others, like we have actually seen happening elsewhere then she did very badly in that interview.

She didn't do any of that.

In a normal political party you’d have people starting to call for a change of leader and for her to resign by now.

Will you top 80k posts by the end of today?

I haven’t head her interviews this morning.

I really hope Stanley goes public on what he’s accused of. His wife is a SF councillor. Wonder if she’ll be resigning from the party today.

The investigation that was hiding under a pillow for 3 months until the McGonagle story.

😁 If they wanted to cover it up, they would not have begun the process at all or entertained the complaint.

Ridiculous nonsense tbh.

When you compare it fairly to what happens when the leader of another party admits wrongdoing of a potentially criminal nature SF come out smelling of roses here. Did FG refer potentially criminal behaviour to the Gardai?

Yes that is whataboutery, but it is relevant.

My sense is that if the election goes badly that EOB is a busted flush. They did a soft relaunch post the locals with their housing policy and it barely moved the needle.

That said, I think a bad election will be the most tumultuous thing to happen to SF since they started running for Westminister so what the future holds is very interesting indeed.

I agree that more should have been done about Leo leaking the contract to his mate. It was pretty poor from him and reeked of the old boys clique.

She was on newstalk at the same time. So all the scandals are not really scandals but are proof that sf are well run and clear and transparent in their processes. Clearly the sf definition of transparent is not the same as everyone else.

They received the complaint against Stanley in July, apparently they couldn't investigate it in August as people were on leave, they investigated in September and decided it was legit at the start of October.

Apparently Stanley had a barrister and solicitor involved the whole time, sf also had a barrister. She came across very poor, a lot of waffle and deflection.

Say they were up all night trying to spin this.