The wondrous adventures of Sinn Fein (part 3) Mod Notes and Threadbanned List in OP

Please don't try and include me in your privilege. I don't have a position of privilege.

I know that there are plenty of people who struggle, and need help and support.

I also know that there are plenty of people who choose not to house themselves.

Generational welfare is a downward spiral, and leads to more and more social problems, but the answer from Sinn Féin and its supporters is: Give them more welfare!

Why not try and fix the problems?

Why blame and try and punish people who choose to house themselves?

ya all that Tech and IT and call center jobs , all that light industry and international industry's that used to exist , not to mention the bloated state jobs that no longer exists 🤔🤔🤔

you think that's the problem do ya ? how many were generational social welfare lifers 100 years ago do you think ?

You have no appetite to fix the problem.

If the generation welfare problem is fixed, which it can be, then a lot of the support for the left dries up, and the left don’t want that.

as usual when the BS you post is called out you pretend (hopefully) to misunderstand in a weak effort to deflect 🙄🙄🙄

i really hope you get a new playbook from the organization for xmass

I found a discussion from Clontarf Dublin Media on youtube which was posted five years ago.

With the title

Organised Crime special: City Councillor to Convict, we outed Jonathan Dowdall as a "wrong 'un"

So this information is already in the public domain -

The blurb is as follows -

'This interview was originally broadcast on Council Matters (103.2 Dublin City-fm) in June 2018.

In 2014, when Jonathan Dowdall was elected to Dublin City Council, he attracted more votes than Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, 3 x Labour candidates, a Green Party councillor and a current Workers' Party councillor. This probably owed more to the efficiency of the Sinn Féin electoral machine and the gullibility of the Dublin Central electorate, than any personal charisma on Dowdall's part.

Cllr. Dowdall subsequently resigned from Sinn Féin, initially claiming health issue, before altering that to "bullying" when he rebranded himself as an Independent. It all came to a head following the Regency Hotel shootings, when Dowdall's home was raided by police in search of firearms. They may not have found any weapons but instead discovered something even more incriminating - a USB stick. On that stick was an X-ratd video recording of a man being waterboarded, torture and threatened with mutilation and death. It eas not clear why Dowdall chose to keep this "trophy" but in 2017 it earned him 12 years in maximum security, with his willing accomplice father copping an 8 stretch.

Solicitor and criminologist Malachy Steenson, was the first person to alert the public to the rumours of Dowdall's involvement in serious crime. He was later vindicated when Dowdall, father and son, pleaded guilty in the Special Criminal Court.

In a 2016 edition of CouncilMatters, Malachy discussed in detail the nexus between politics and organised crime in Dublin's inner city. In the wake of Dowdall's conviction he returned to update listeners in relation to that case and other accusations of nefarious goings on, involving criminals and local politicians.

He proposes the 731 voters who gave Dowdall their first preference are owed an explanation, by Sinn Fein into:

- who recruited him into the party?

- how he was selected as a candidate, over better known and qualified party activists?

- what were the sources of any funds he brought to the party?

While Malachy confirms the Dowdall case is one the worst example of links between criminals and politicians in Dublin, he concedes it is not unique. He offers examples of (reputed) large scale drug importation by politically connected identities and suddenly acquired wealth and properties being amassed by others.

Dublin politics is not for the faint hearted!'

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Solicitor, criminologist and Republican Malachy Steenson said his own Republican sources tried to warn Mary Lou McDonald about Dowdall's background.

Yeah some of those jobs requires hard work and skill... tens of thousands of low skill jobs going now, what's the excuse not to take them?

so sf as a legitimate political party will be ensuring these boyos are returned to face the music of selling their terrorist skills to drug cartels and narco terrorists right ?

or will they pretend that its nothing to do with them and try to rewrite history again lol

Colombia Three: Amnesty granted to Irish men found guilty of training FARC guerrillas withdrawn - SundayWorld.com

shit pay which would be wiped out by the costs of getting to those jobs.

no point in working just to pay your transport costs to get there and having nothing else.

the way to deal with that of course would be higher wages.

lol i wonder whats the shinner equivalent of chemical ali ?

they jumped bail while out during the appeal so no they didn't do their time like most ira terrorists

"The appeal court overturned the original trial verdict, and convicted the men of training the rebels, sentencing them to seventeen years in jail on 16 December 2004"

all three ira sf members one had even been a elected rep for them 😄😄😄

exporting terrorism is sfs only economic policy so far

Think most are banned, Bren.

Yeah, all the unemployed around my area are the grandchildren of blacksmiths, millers and coopers ;-)

McDonald was very sour looking when Varadkar was giving his speech, she then jumps up shouting about change knowing full well she will have to talk to either FF or FG if she wants to get her arse in the bosses chair after the next election.

But sure it sounded great to the average SF supporter who wouldn't be the sharpest knife in the drawer.