Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

You can see here on this thread why SF have such a huge problem with sexual abuse within the party because it's tolerated. We have SF supporters are in the case of one poster arguably representative defend SF protecting people who engage in child sex abuse. It's just a smaller version of what went on in the Catholic Church for decades.

If SF had exposed Jerry Adams brother or even more bravely kicked Jerry Adams out of the party for his cover up, it's unlikely we would be having the conversations over the recent cover ups because the cover ups wouldn't have happened.

For all the conspiracy nonsense about the media being controlled by, FF, FG, Labour etc etc and been out to get SF it's SF online supporters that have done the most damage. By defending SF it creates an image that SF tolerates child sex abuse and sexual abuse in general. By not holding MLMD and wider to account it only damages SF long term as it just ensures in years to come there will be more incidents to come out. If MLMD really cared about SF she'd resign. If all the online "supporters" of SF really cared about the party they would be holding their party to account in the same way they would rightly hold another party.

Again look at the Catholic Church and it's cover ups over the decades and it's awful response. An organization that could bring down governments has been reduced to irrelevance in large part due to its handling of child sex abuse scandals. While extreme it's a lesson to any organization.

Just wondering - how good an election do SF need to have for any questions over MLMD's leadership to go away? And how bad an election would make it an absolute must change the leadership situation?

Is it her that makes that decision though? Some would be of the opinion is it her masters in the AC in Belfast.

Would be nice if she stepped down, her insufferable voice and condescending nature really leaves an increasingly poor impression as time goes on.

I don’t think that is good at all when you consider 14 extra TDs and that they “underperformed” their vote share last time.

It might be realistic at this stage but won’t be good, as in such a scenario both FF and FG would likely have picked up half of those new seats and they’d be the clear #1 and #2.

And then if you consider the Soc Dems and Labour. If they could somehow get to 20 between the two of them there would be a real question in my mind on who the lead opposition is.

MLMD explicitly said if there had been a hint of criminality on the allegation against Stanley, it would have gone to the Guards.

That don’t happen for his allegation.

That’s the end of it, you can keep muddying the waters but that’s how it played out.

I think it'd be good enough to save her role, considering it's no longer a plausible outcome!

Clearly you haven't seen the defences mounted in various government scandals.

At all times I have allowed for more information and proof of the allegations being proven.
I said when the statement on O'Donghaile's resignation emerged that I thought it was resigning matter if a credible explanation was not forthcoming.

*I don't and never have idolised anyone, Adams is a flawed leader with all the human frailties and mistakes that leaders make and I never voted for SF with him as leader.

Given your historical posts for this account, (and the other account), this is a lie.