Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

I think Mary Lou dropped the extra info on what BS was accused of in order to almost goad him into talking about it

If it was Lyn Boylan involved,BS may not want that known

Interestingly Lyn Boylans husband was the only SF T.D that seemed to be absent during Mary Lou’s speech yesterday

If BS is clever,he won’t rise to the bait,let the election be called next week and continue just issuing counter statements avoiding interviews?

Seperately,it’s my opinion that SF have a problem with the impression being out there now of running alternative courts

One might have the cover of saying they’re internal employment tribunal’s but SF with their history have to be careful there with this one

It’s also out there now that much of the known so far story in all 3 incidents was being kept quiet and only publicised/admitted to when found out by the media

This is all very very messy

Well as far as I can ascertain they have not lied about the process they have and how it operated in this case.

Seems to be ok for other political parties to keep their disciplinary processes secret.

Changing leader like this is not unprecedented.

Bob Hawke replaced Bill Hayden just as the Fraser government were going to the polls in Australia in 1983. He won in a landslide.

Even Harris is a good recent example.

The problem here though it isn’t just the leader, the whole thing is rotten and all of these people have something on one another.

Firstly the kangaroo court statement was part of his resignation letter which was made prior to SF handing the case to the Gardai, so that point is nonsense.

Secondly you might notice from his statement yesterday, which was quite obviously heavily edited by a legal professional, is he talking about the case in question or its details? No, and if that's what you want him to talk about and ive made it pretty clear why he likely wont.

Ill try explain once more though why hes not saying anything about the case though and apologies to everyone else for the caps as it seems you are incapable of reading…. BECAUSE ITS BASIC LEGAL STRATEGY TO NOT COMMENT PUBLICLY ON SOMETHING YOU'VE BEEN ACCUSED OF WHILE IT IS UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE GARDAI.

If the gardai ultimately deem it not worthy of investigation and he still refuses to discuss the details of the complaint then yes maybe you are right but until then you are just behaving in wild speculation based on absolutely nothing.

I laugh at you painting me as a FFG supporter too, my posting history will probably show while i have voted for FG and never for FF I still have many problems with both parties and have criticised them many many times but typically from SF and the Irish left in general its always a with us or against us attitude. Unlike you I hold no cultish level of loyalty to any specific party.

They said that Brian Stanley should report it to AGS.

The end.

Red and Francie are behaving in a classic attack the whistleblower manner.

The attacks on Stanley by his former colleagues who supposedly don’t have the facts themselves reminds me of the Fair Gaming tactics you see in Scientology.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_game_(Scientology)

Perhaps because he was in the middle of a process that he felt threatened by.

Stop deflecting anyway, her words were clear. If there was the suggestion of criminality then they would report it- only that appears to be the standard for the allegation on Stanley and not Stanley’s one.

Instead they sat on it (including from her) from Sept 11 to Oct 12.

Assuming he is a whistleblower… There have been no whistles blown yet

I am looking at all that has been said, not just one snippet of one interview.

They have said they sent the file to the Gardai and it is up to the Gardai to decide if there is a criminal aspect/charge to be made.

I'm not so sure

Under the 18-25 day rule. If the Dáil is dissolved on the 25th, the election would need to be between the 12th and 19th of November, probably the 15th as we have a preference for Fridays

The most recent SF issues by then will be a thing of the past but the hospital trolley crisis will have just started as well.