The Curious Case of Violet-Anne Wynne

I agree there should be more women in the Dail. Where I disagree with you is women with young children. Women simply cannot work a 7 day job and also be a mother to young children. Thats reality!

All of my friends would rather be at home with their children than having to go out to work. We have discussed this many times

Yeh tbh it doesn't look any worse than the political bitchiness and shennanigans that go on in any local branch of any party, one the most cut throat environments on the planet.

The RSF stuff is just bizarre tbh,

I agree with others, she seemed out of her depth.

No, I don't need to work for anyone, I would know people in all political party's. They are, when things go wrong especially, one of the most cut throat environments of ego's and ambition you could possibly find.

And like when a partnership between brothers or sisters unravels, it can be very bitter. with claim and counter claim, recrimination after recrimination, both sides needing to emerge with face and a chance of continuing from where they left off.

'Encouraging women into politics' has been an issue here since Independence, across all parties it is at the low 20 percentile.

Looking at the data, SF have female leaders in both jurisdictions while the power swap have never had a female leader and FG seem to be the party with the biggest problem attracting them followed by FF.

I take great enjoyment in the fact that many of the usual crew are now turning on VAW when some months back, they were her biggest cheerleader and defender.

No not a deflection at all. I dont agree with how Sinn Fein treated her - they didnt seem to support her in anyway which was wring.

Does your friends have 6 young children by the way.

I think any woman who has 6 small children would struggle to work in any job let alone work as a TD. Lots of women with small children take a few years out of their career when they have small kids. Ultimately I do believe she will resign for family reasons and I wouldn't blame her. Feminism is about supporting women at lifes various stages - it shouldn't be about forcing women to feel they can do it all when the reality is they are exhausted trying to do all that's expected. I feel Violet was struggling with juggling it all

I think she could have alot too offer in a few years time.

Can't understand how she's not an FG Minister by now, thought O'Donovan was going to fastrack he admittance,get her the once over from Dinny and have her installed in a ministerial position by last Friday,

Correction: the only people worth talking about are the ones you want to talk about.

There is nothing that went on that I can see that amounts to 'bullying', if it was 'bullying' then political shennanigans and oneup'person'ship is bullying and I and anyone else would be considered a loon if we suggested that.

None of what went on reflects well on anyone here tbh, but perspective is required.

Once again the import of actual bullying is diminished by those happy enough to demean and denigrate themselves if it suits a political agenda. Yourself included, in respect of a journalist doing her job.

Just calling out that the pattern seems to be:

1. SF does something sh*tty
2. Posters try and defend SF by saying FG would do the same
3. FG haven't done the same
4. SF does something else sh*tty
5. Go to 2

This is also usually accompanied by some very simplistic language after the posters were proven wrong, with a repost of the original whataboutery with "simple as" or something similar at the end.

The questions I have is why FG, FF and other parties seem to be off limits right now.

We can call it the "SF whataboutery circle for simpletons" or "SF circle" for short, feel free to call it out when it happens next.