Wicklow no longer in the RA.
Gerry is going @ChocolateMice the ihe is over Sf/IRA for 35 terse
Just announced himself and Ferris wonât be standing in the next election
Edit - standing down as President too.
End of an era. First step in getting Sinn Fein into power in the south.
Legend, hero, icon.
Is Joe Reilly retiring as well, or was Gerry making a point to the TD Reilly stepped aside for after 2009?
We wonât see the likes of Gerry agin.Iâd like to see Pearse take over now.
Labour are fucked now
Fuck labour
Dessie Ellis staying on? Who else of the parliamentary party saw active service??
Donât think thereâs anyone in south anymore bar Dessie
Finally SF can take a step forward, rightly or wrongly the average man in the street has associated Adams with nothing but murder and scandal and he never had Martinâs appeal as a man of the people.
A good day for the party
Bollocks
Think theyâd be better skipping McDonald and going straight for Doherty.
Iâd agree with that but I donât see it happening, MaryLou will get her chance, probably deserves it as well but itâs not the best thing for SF
Hasnât Doherty more or less ruled himself out anyway?
Just interested to know why you donât feel Mary Loughborough would be the right choice for SF?
Heâs a better actor than most of them
Wasnât Pearce caught playing away from home by the missus? I think she torpedoed any hope he had of becoming leader.
I would have thought in a party where allegations of bullying,terrorism, kidnapping, murder, bank robbery and covering up child abuse donât seem to cause much difficulties that a bit of a extra-marital dalliance should hardly be career-threatening?