Mary Lou MacDonald suing RTE

This is blanch bull.

I don't use selective victims in the way you continually use and discard them. Fact.

Oh...I thought you guys all knew what the case was about, haven't you scoured the show and found nothing defaming? Am I missing something?

Nonsensical rubbish.

If you mention people dying on hospital trolleys, you are using victims for political purposes, if you mention people who can't afford a house in the suburbs, you are using victims for political purposes, if you mention people in nursing homes with Covid, you are using victims for political purposes. I could go on and on and on.

This whole crying about victims is just your selective approach to all things Sinn Fein. The things is, you don't want to mention the child abuse victims mistreated by Sinn Fein and the IRA, you don't want to mention the people killed or disappeared in cold blood by the IRA, and supported by Sinn Fein. You don't want any accountability for these things.

His brother went to jail though

Did his oul' fella ever go to jail for molesting kids?

Plain to see blanch.

Your 'victims' are chosen for their emotive value. You aren't concerned about them because if you really were there would be victims from right across the spectrum...there simply isn't.

I am concerned about the victims of the housing crisis and trolley crisis whosever they are.

If you can't see the difference between that and your hideous use then I really feel sorry for you. I really do. You are a victim yourself in many ways.

Morning Ireland radio from February featuring Mairia Cahill, I linked to their shows earlier if you want to listen to it.

So this is where "allegiances" come into play (and it would be interesting for other posters to say which way I vote as I've never said and I'd be critical of lots of things the government has done, where it makes a difference is in pointing out when the opposition party plan is no better or is the same plan).

We are at the point where the SF followers are supportive of SLAPPS actions as used by the likes of Dennis O'Brien purely because someone from SF is pursuing one.

Where the party leader isn't responsible for those in the party because the SF leader has been exposed in this way (and it's the only way they can make their defamation argument work when the facts around Mairia Cahill come out, they know what it's about but are too afraid to say it).

And where no one can comment on a case where all facts are in the public domain until the case is concluded, but only for SF.

It's patently ridiculous and when the government engages in those actions, they should be and ARE held to account by everyone.

But SF and MLMD are the "victims" here. It is completely laughable and they have made absolute fools out of themselves, again (after 30 pages of saying nothing loudly of course...).

So tell me, how many political parties in Ireland in the last 60 years have supported a terrorist organisation that disappeared victims? Happy to condemn all such political parties. Across the spectrum, which ones?

You see, Francie, the horrific nature of what the Sinn Fein-supported PIRA inflicted on ordinary people isn't matched by any other political part in the South. How can I condemn that across the spectrum, when only one (well, maybe the IRSP as well) supported such acts?

You are calling for political balance when only one party has supported the committal of such atrocities.

Nauseating stuff Francie, as always. Excusing and explaining atrocities is what you prefer to do. What the PIRA did was completely and utterly wrong. No ifs, buts or maybes.

Neither MLMD or Gerry Adams have addressed that, with their mealy mouth excuses.

Weasel words from them. The victims of the PIRA don't accept that they have done enough.

This case might fit her ideological framework better

Can anyone post the tweet? I'm not on twitter and can't locate it. Toibin's comment about 'letting people die' suggest it might be near the knuckle...

You just ignored what was said to you clearly and invented your own narrative about what was being said here.

What are you on about 'squirmed away'?

• Broader definition of what the "media" is. The media is the media. Not sure what answer you are looking for.
• Why Mary-Lou would skip the press council process or other faster/cheaper processes (unless you're sticking to reverse-SLAPPS?). You need to ask her, I have no idea and care less. I have said this already
• Recognising this has become a pattern for SF and it's members. I long ago recognised and referred to repeat use of deflectionary tactics (including possible defamation) used against SF in particular...remember the general election and the public getting sick of it? No surprise that SF would be to the fore trying to stop it. I have also said this already
• What you think was defamatory to Mary-Lou in the Mairia Cahill interview on morning Ireland (my opinion is that nothing was defamatory). No idea until we get the detail. I didn't even listen to the interview. Said this already too
• Others in government parties that have done this and not been widely condemned by everyone (funny to see the "both sides" arguments coming in here as well). Yes, others have and I can't seem to find any posts by me giving out about it before we had the detail. Yep, said this already too.