Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

If he had been found innocent by SF and this lady was in the papers making her claims some of the folk here wouldn't be long telling you were the gross misconduct was.

Yes there is if the Daily Mail is actually quoting her.

the inquiry from SF found her telling of the story to be very credible. MLMD also said that the woman was very distressed.

I think it’s somewhat logical to assume that BS may have really frightened her in the room, pestered her for intimacy etc, and she was too scared to try leave. Sexual harrassment seeming to be what happened here, as what SF think

The whole “why didn’t she leave and why go to room” are separate discussions. When a woman is in genuine fear/distress in these type situations, sometimes freezing and doing nothing is the body’s way of trying to cope and diffuse.

It’s absolute ridiculous to think he booked the room for them without the intention for intimacy. She didn’t play ball and things got messy/scary for her.

these just my thoughts on what happened. Not on any side or not slating anyone.

Yes, the text sent about 60k was bad. Something she admits to, but that doesn’t mean that what she claims happened didn’t happen. She still pursued this after the ill-judged texting.

According to a summary on the radio today, he had the room booked all along because he was staying in Dublin anyway for the dail.

The big issue here that would really have helped Sinn Féin is if they actually had an independent review. As it is, you can make a claim that if SF, for whatever reason, wanted Stanley out they could use this investigation as the reason to turf him out.

A finding from an independent panel would be much stronger than an internal sinn fein one, especially when the party is perceived to be extremely centralised when it comes to decisions across the board.

I think everybody knows that if Brian Stanley had done nothing and stayed quiet it's likely he'd not be nominated by the party for next election, there'd have been some statement about him standing down and a thank you for his service and we'd have heard nothing about this complaint/report.

I don't object, we have had kangaroo courts here on boards.ie where people have been found guilty on the basis of allegations and testimony that is dubious.

Kangaroo courts happen therefore and this may have been one, but it is up to Stanley to tell us how it was one. He hasn't as yet.

My reading of it is that he behaved 'inappropriately', rather than illegally. It is not a criminal offence for a man to tell a woman "I want to have sex with you", even if they somehow happen to be sharing a hotel room.

In the context of a work situation and two work colleagues for example, it would be something a female employee would report to her HR department, definitely not to the Gardaí.

No, I didn’t describe sexual assault. If you read my post, you can infer more a sexual harassment situation, one that SF believe happened. Nowhere in my post did I describe or imply a sexual assault situation took place.

Conveniently broken down into the exact quantities needed to avoid anti-money laundering questions should she have gone to bank it if BS had paid up, theres a smell of sh1te off this and we're not being told the full details