Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

https://sluggerotoole.com/2024/10/20/sinn-feins-secrecy-crisis-deepens-as-victim-gives-his-version-of-the-o-donnghaile-story/

About time we moved away from silly Swedish blogs speaking from a distance of ignorance on Sinn Fein to consider something closer to home and more accurately hard-hitting.

This article asks a lot of questions that still remain despite MLMD's best efforts to end the multiple scandals today. Perhaps the most telling comment is

"This is where the culture question kicks in."

Further on, there is this:

"Sam McBride has noted that until forced to confess Ó Donnghaile felt safe enough from scrutiny to attack anyone asking awkward questions of his former party, tweeting Sam that “*maybe* the Bel Tel don’t like that a Republican is First Minister…”

This takes us right back to the concealment problem within the culture of a party where challenging the behaviour of a senior party official is “likely to backfire on you”. This is a key connective thread between all of these episodes.

Holly Cairns has asked what’s the difference between two PROs giving a reference to a suspected (later convicted) paedophile to off load him from party responsibility, and Mary Lou’s encomium giving O’Donnghaile a signal he could carry on regardless?

The answer to both I suspect lies in another comic work from that line of the 2 Johnnie’s inspired skit that the party is still substantially influenced if not controlled by something approximating “big scary f@ckers from south Armagh”."

The fact that NOD was free to continue his political crusade for Sinn Fein is down to MLMD and her flawed incredible decision to give him praise. This isn't over by a long shot. The credibility issue will haunt MLMD up until the general election, and her inevitable resignation thereafter. This is so true:

"Not everyone has tried to avoid making it a political football. But just as the date of the next election is due to be announced the only party making it political is Sinn Féin themselves by offering an abominably low standard for child protection."

We are so far from the world-class top-standard child protection policy that MLMD long ago promised the Irish people following the Seamus Marley crisis, which had followed on from the Liam Adams and Mairia Cahill crises. SF truly do have a problem with child protection.

P.S. It is more than ok to shoot the messenger when they are an unknown blogger from faraway who can hardly have a handle on anything going on today in Ireland, but a much different thing to have a go at someone who is on the ground in Northern Ireland as the author of the linked article is and has a stellar reputation in journalism, but nonetheless, Fealty been the subject of uninformed hypocritical criticism on here many times not for what he says, but for who he is. A really bad case of shooting the messenger.

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Everything Fealty said is backed up by fact, your friend is just spouting nonsense.

Using nepotism to buy silence is what is going on.

Like the writer of the article, you fail to distinguish the difference between a policy failure of a government, and what Sinn Fein have done in terms of child protection. The seriousness of the latter is something you both fail to understand, and it speaks clearly to the culture around child protection within Sinn Fein and among its supporters. No wonder the lads felt enabled to give McMonagle a reference.

It really says something, doesn't it?

The author was making simplistic comparisons, not simple comparisons, that is where he fell down. Despite my explanation of the nuances, you are falling into the same trap. As I said already, it speaks to the culture around child protection within Sinn Fein.

As for Fealty, you could not resist shooting the messenger.

Leaving it there.

Yes lying and protecting a party member who is texting kids should be shut down quickly.

Sure who cares about child protection

What a stupid post.

As I said, child protection is not something SF or seemingly their hardcore supporters care about, just what looks good for the party.

Nobody, NOBODY has said anyone should have accepted Bloody Sunday.

So the faux outrage posts are just the latest nonsense on here