Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

When will Eoin O’Broin come out of hiding?

By helping him get a role with the BHF?

No, by immediately suspending him from his role and forcing him out of the party. The references to the BHF were unauthorised and the people who did that are gone from the party never to be back.
I also think C. Murphy did the right thing, took responsibility and apologised for his initial assumption that BHF had not done due diligence. I'm still shocked that a person can find their way into an organisation unvetted like this when there are facilities like AccessNI.

And I have said that it SHOULD be a legal onus to report to Gardai. It isn't credible to me that a party that wanted to cover this up/keep it private would report it to the PSNI in the first place, that makes no sense to me as a theory.

Having done all that I fail to see what advantage would have accrued to the party by not reporting it to the Gardai. Do you think had the PSNI charged and prosecuted him the press down here wouldn't have found out? The perp has lost his membership, his career and was put in line for a custodial sentence by SF.

I also don't get the 16 or 17 year contention. The Gardai could not prosecute him for an offence committed in the north. So whether he was 16 or 17 has no significance to me anyway.

The person at the centre of this wants a sincere apology and I think they absolutely should get that and if it can't be delivered to the victim's satisfaction she should resign.

We could be reading the shinners outrage wrongly… maybe they took the traitors comment to be a reflection on their predominantly planter and garrison ancestry 😳😂

Think it was the Sunday TImes that described the housing plan as 'well received' this morning.

O'Donghaile got a great send-off from MLMD.

McMonagle got references that allowed him to work with children.

Reporting somebody to the police and making the process sub-judice is a great way of avoiding questions in a general election campaign.

Something is rotten at the core of Sinn Fein.

The person at the centre of this wants a sincere apology and I think they absolutely should get that and if it can't be delivered to the victim's satisfaction she should resign.

Given the comments from the victim in the paper today, that he has not had any direct apology from SF, how long should he have to wait?

A day, a week? And then should MLMD resign if this apology is not received to his satisfaction?

Trouble reading again?

I didn't say he 'supported it' I said he said 'there is merit in some of their proposals.'

Glenveagh, which on Thursday reported “milestone growth” in the first half of 2024 as its order book grew to €1.4 billion, said elements of the opposition party’s housing plan had merit, but cast doubt on others.

Poster claimed that it was 'laughed at'.
I think that can be debunked.

Most Leaving Cert projects have merit in some of their proposals.

There was no welcoming fanfare to await the Sinn Fein ideas. Why? Because some of them will set things back drastically, and even the ones with small merits will take years to implement and offer marginal change at best. The central proposals were laughed at and then ignored by the banks.

Housing policy must facilitate developers, otherwise private sector housing doesn't get built, or, at the very least, it shouldn't overly restrict them.

The Curates Egg response - "some merit" - does not mean well received. Unless there's another report of it's reception somewhere, the mark has been overstepped by that journalist