Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

Mary Lou McDonald is turning into a real electoral asset. For Fianna Fail.

She needs to start checking under her car every morning, in a political metaphorical sense of course.

I'm not interested in alternative facts which is what you presented

No need for me to repeat the obvious and clear reason anyone can see for me not being interested ,that you've ignored,once is enough,I'll count the number of times you repeat the nonsense though if you like?

As for MM,his party seems to be doing a lot better than polls suggested which is reasonable justification is it not?

no SF videos invading my profile today thank God!

Hopefully they get the message and stop sending unwanted propaganda of Mary Loo power walking around a random beach to people - if anything it made me even more adamant NOT to vote for them.

They could probably do with a new leader. But there's no contender.

Shouty Doherty of Author O'Broin ... 2 woefully inept politicians who will send further votes to FG and FF. Bring it on.

Good Lord yer man Cullinan all but threw Mary Loo under the bus few mins ago on the radio.

Stressing success in his home patch and very slow to address national performance.

When prompted, he gave a Very weak endorsement - paraphrasing but it was something like “we had a great turnout in 2020, MLMCD can point to that regardless”.

Is the Waterford Whippet on manoeuvres?

Would Northern Command “allow” a challenge to MLMCD if this slide continues?

A caveat for those losing the run of themselves and thinking the race is run.

2019 - FF and FG in a C&S government finished the LE's ahead of where they are projected to finish this time with SF nowhere. By the GE in 2020 that picture changed dramatically

I don't think SF will be folding tents just yet.

Could you perhaps debate the point made? Less of the hysterics?

Not going to drag it out of you.

Well the vote is coming in, so it seems like the namesake I Ran Away, you are running away from the more pointed questions about the future of SF.

😂

It's almost as if all the waffle you have spouted for years is, well waffle 😂

To be fair,O'Doherty does as good a humility face as he does a shouty face as seen on RTE news tonight

I am still convinced Sinn Féin will do much better than this in a GE,they will respond and adapt to the wake up call

If a GE was held alongside the Euros's in 2019,they'd have lost seats,just as they'd have won councils if local elections were run alongside the Feb 2020 Dáil one

All SF need to do now is not panick,nuance the message and be a bit braver on the harder calls vs what they'd traditionally do

Someone in Belfast thought Mary Lou in a hijab was a complimentary extension of their affinity with palestine

Ditto on having a softer touch on immigration from muslim/African countries

They need to listen on that and be more practical to head off the leakage of support,the annoyance of tgeir core,most best seen in the Dublin central LEA's

If a GE was held alongside the Euros's in 2019,they'd have lost seats,just as they'd have won councils if local elections were run alongside the Feb 2020 Dáil one

That is a fair point, but dont you think that FF and FG wont have learned lessons from the 2020 GE? Simon Haris reminds me of Bertie, he seems to have a keen sense of politics and strategy.

I think an early GE is all but assured now. Go to the polls late October, after a giveaway budget, while the mood is still relatively good. FF and FG can be returned along with some Independants and another party, not SF. SF can continue to talk to the moon.

Remember, the chat about 12-18 months ago was SF storming to 60+ TD's with FF as the junior partner. It is a very different situation now.

Doherty is the obvious choice, but is not the answer. He’s just Mary Lou with a Donegal accent. Negative, shouty, lacking in detail, surly when probed by the likes of Pat Kenny and Rachel English.

My dark horse would be the lesser spotted Pa Daly from Kerry. Intelligent, good grasp of detail, doesn’t resort to shouting. Your man Darren from Meath is more favourably located geographically and also seems to be a smart chap. Slim pickings enough though.