Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

If you're poor and your waiting for any government to rescue you then you're deluded.

That said its good that the Irish gov tax low paid workers very little. Give them a chance to better themselves.

It won't happen at the next election.

Possibly in 5 years time.

But they will not do well at the upcoming election. There's no "pity" out there for them. They are not being bullied by others. It all internal sf issues and it has brought to the fore that they simply are not fit to govern.

It will give Lab / SocDem an opportunity and if they had sense they'd join together and replace sf as the main opposition. There won't be another opportunity like this for them

So.she made her statement and then left the chamber, must have better things to do.

I don't, after years of her hyping up every minor thing into a "CRISIS", wasting Dail time, and calling for heads, this is quite entertaining to watch, every way she turns there's a new issue and she's not going to be able to bullsh1t her way out of them

Other than accommodating you, giving you free health care and education, going you a weekly allowance and providing multiple paths to employment and bettering your employment (Springboard), yes, the Government is doing nothing for the poor.

Mary Lou needs to go. Finishing her statement by making digs at other political parties is pathetic.

Just thinking out loud here, is wasting Garda time still an offence on the books?

So loadsa people work for them and they're subject to Paddy's unenforced regulations?

That's makes them legit?

Gimme a break.

RTEs staff are full of FFGers to the point that GBNews would look independent.

They should be closed down. No one watches RTE. Waste of money

Mary Lou said the complainant in the Stanley issue was traumatised and that it was a serious allegation. But it took 9 months to report. And that report landed the week that Stanley would have filled in the election paperwork. Did Stanley p1ss the complainant off so badly that the date was deliberate and an act of revenge?

Mary Lou also says Stanley’s counter claim was a serious allegation. Think Mary Lou has forgotten what she said on Sunday in regards to serious and possibly criminal allegations.

Matt Carthy said a journalist approached him a few weeks ago asking about the complaint. Matt needs to expand on what he did or didn’t do with this bit of info.

Not sure the government has come out of that debate as they expected to.
Majority of it was lambasting the governments record on child protection

I reckon the Stanley and O'Connghaile issues are merely those we now know about.

Yep, the problem with both issues is the underlying sense of the party covering things up. On that basis it really does feel that there are possibly more stories just under the surface.

SF either think they can keep a lid on the rest or else they should really get everything out in one go, deal with the pain and then move on.

I hate to use the term "normal party", but if this was a normal party there would be at least somebody making manouvers trying to oust the leader. I wonder if that's happening here.

So was Mary Lou

She was stopped from releasing his name last year due to supposed mental health problems and now it's seemingly fine to release his name.

This mental health bull should not have been accepted by Sinn Fein.

It suited them to believe he had mental health issues.