Which of the 3 parties they try to get will be the thing. If only there was a prominent fingal-based poster with connections to the upper echelons of the green party who could enlighten us as to their stance. Cc @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy
Bruton is one of the most capable ministers. Heās always on top of his brief and knows his shit. The rest of them can be fucked aside and replaced with brown envelopes with no loss of corporate knowledge.
By running enough candidates in the first place you RA Head.
They had no intention of forming a Government by running the standard & number of candidates they did. Simple as that.
FF & FG should be talking to them undoubtedly but they clearly insisted in their Election campaigns that they wouldnāt. Unpalatable but itās exactly as they said.
SF got an excellent result but they did not win a Majority, they need to stop playing that card.
Sinn Feinā s showing in the General Election surprised everybody. Including Sinn Fein. They obviously would have ran more candidates if they knew the surge was coming. Itās disingenuous to criticise them for not forming a government now when the numbers donāt add up.
There was evidence up to 4 weeks out that there was a wave of discontent out there against the mainstream parties.
Where SF HQ got it wrong was ignoring this and playing their hand based on Local Election results. That is as clear as day and to disagree is plain mental.
SF HQ did get it wrong. Itās their job to know the surge was coming and they didnāt. However blaming Mary Lou now for not being able to cobble a government together is ridiculous. The numbers donāt add up.