anyone here going to vote sinn féin?

wont vote sinn fein for alot of smart reasons,think they need too mature more politics and get tin the real work,i left this country in 80's ,then as now,was hoping in vain i know that they all pull together for sake of country even for a year as national government where all will work together,but they didnt

because labour/FG have pretty much nothing new to offer thats any different to FF.

People want radical change.

The other options represent a status quo, albeit with different colours on their mast.



IMO, Pearse Doherty has also performed extremely well since winning the by-election and has given SF greater exposure/credibility.

Seloth wrote: »

In my local town its a SF councilor and his wife that run one of two local news papers and I must say its the biggest load of propaganda Bull**** known to man.

The Cllr Discussed in this weeks edition in his own large section of how SF are the only true opposition party :pac:

Yeah, you'll have that with local 'news'papers anyway. They're usually mouthpieces for local councillors/politicians. This weeks Galway Advertiser had the front page dedicated to why our Labour candidate should be elected to replace Michael D Higgins.

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I presume Brian Lenihan and Brain Cowen were geniuses in Economics.

dabestman1 wrote: »

I presume Brian Lenihan and Brain Cowen were geniuses in Economics.

They are compared to SF, at least Biffo didnt try to spend the National Pension Reserve Fund twice.

dabestman1 wrote: »

Im just reading the posts about the apparent links of crime to Aengus o snodaigh, sounds like SF bashiing to me. Anyway, Remember Judge Curtain, caught with Child Porn, ran as a councillor for the PDs and Michael McDowell campaigned for him, so by your logic is Michael McDowell a Paedophile?

Well ignoring the temporal order of events in the Curtin case (which you obviously do) there is a broader issue here on this thread and more generally with respect to SF supporters.

Like the rest of us, they look at the bad behaviour of some politicians, many in FF, and are happy to criticise them before any court or tribunal finds against them.

But if anybody points to anything suspicious in the past of SF politicians we will be told one or more of the following .

1. Stop dragging up the past. We should look forward, not back.
2. There is no proof of these slanderous allegations you are making
3. This is just SF bashing

Sauce for both the goose and gander and all that

Pete_Cavan wrote: »

They are compared to SF, at least Biffo didnt try to spend the National Pension Reserve Fund twice.

true, he just dumped it into a dead bank instead

Monty Burnz wrote: »

I'd guess because a lot of younger people don't remember the Sinn Fein/IRA terrorist campaign and the innocent deaths it entailed. And they don't realise the disaster that socialist government brought to half of Europe and elsewhere. Basically if you didn't watch the news before 1994, the Shinners seem like a normal political party and their policies look plausible.

the rising and the war of independence was vastly unpopular as well im afraid, many of them went on to be politicians, but I guess thats history so its ok.

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... including the two previous Ministers for Finance. The writing was on the wall for them seven years ago but they couldn't read it and proved it several times over since.

No, Cowen-Lenihan haven't tried to spend the pension fund twice - they've taken out a 100 year mortgage instead and spent three generations' worth of income instead.