Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

When it's going bad, for them, SF always double down on the United Ireland rhetoric. The single issue they feel they own - which they don't.

It's akin to your drunk uncle's bad party piece at a wedding, entertaining when you were immature but getting a small bit tired and tedious now.

To be fair, he was the one who was threatened with bribery or whatever you'd call it, and this happened months before any complaint was submitted. If it was to go to the Gardaí it should have been on him immediately to do so.

It's obvious he was following the usual sinn fein, look after ourselves approach until he decided to leave the party. Then he's all for transparency.

He was treated poorly by the party, but he's not innocent either.

Why? Sinn fein weren't been threatened. Brian Stanley was.

Because BS has put Repubicanism first by not taking the complaint to the Gardaí himself as the person of standing and because the lady complainant has been exposed as an extortionist?

Talki about airing dirty linen unnecessarily ,you’d have to question the competency of leadership here wouldn’t you

This is why nobody takes you seriously, trying to put Simon Harris and FG on the same level of Trump and American republicans/conservatives is absurd when FG are comparably to the left of American democrats.

With SF and the Irish left it always comes back to either "you support us 100% or you are against us 100%" and therefore are exactly the same as one of the worst individuals in the world, the world is black and white and grey is impossible with you.

That's a not a credible analysis

Of course BS did not want the allegations on either side to surface as a man of 40 years standing in SF and Republicanism
he didn’t reveal the exact nature of what was behind all this

He was píssed off and rightly so and left SF to explain the mess

Served them right tbh,because the whole thing looks incompetently handled,Imagine píssing off your most senior T.D like this and now to have the rest of your front bench doing him down along with the other messes going on

New politics I suppose ?

After the fact yes

But before the fact,bad management,extremely bad

Ironic given that you compared the left to Trump. Maybe that'd why no takes you seriously? The fact is Trump has blamed American problems on immigrants. Simon Harris has done the same in Ireland. As I said, they'd have great chats about that if they met in person.

So you don't accept the complainant's story that she reacted out of shock and trauma?

I didn’t comment on the validity of the complaint at all but see’ing as you asked,her credibility was shot in my eyes once she admitted the extortion attempt

All immaterial though,utterly badly handled

2 reasons I see. The first was to ensure their members would get a few days reprieve from having to speak openly on this issue "oh I couldn't comment, it's with the gardai". Secondly just to muddy the waters around Stanley as a whole.

Where as letting a senior TD do whatever he likes becuase he's senior and important is a better approach? Old politics the FFG way I suppose.

IRA have never apologised, you said. Get shown apology:

'It's not the apology we wanted'.

Always predictable.

Here it is in full lest others be under researched too:

Full text of Irish Republican Army (IRA) statement of apology
16 April 2002

 

"Sunday 21 July marks the 30th anniversary of an IRA operation in Belfast in 1972 which resulted in nine people being killed and many more injured.

While it was not our intention to injure or kill non-combatants, the reality is that on this and on a number of other occasions, that was the consequence of our actions.

It is therefore appropriate on the anniversary of this tragic event, that we address all of the deaths and injuries of non-combatants caused by us.

We offer our sincere apologies and condolences to their families.

There have been fatalities amongst combatants on all sides. We also acknowledge the grief and pain of their relatives.

The future will not be found in denying collective failures and mistakes or closing minds and hearts to the plight of those who have been hurt. That includes all of the victims of the conflict, combatants and non-combatants.

It will not be achieved by creating a hierarchy of victims in which some are deemed more or less worthy than others.

The process of conflict resolution requires the equal acknowledgement of the grief and loss of others. On this anniversary, we are endeavouring to fulfil this responsibility to those we have hurt.

The IRA is committed unequivocally to the search for freedom, justice and peace in Ireland.

We remain totally committed to the peace process and to dealing with the challenges and difficulties which this presents. This includes the acceptance of past mistakes and of the hurt and pain we have caused to others."