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Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald blasts 'arrogant' political rivals for denying her party place in next Irish government over historic links to IRA
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 10:20 EST, 15 February 2020 | James Mills

Posted on 02/15/2020 9:13:53 PM PST by Olog-hai

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald today blasted “arrogant” political rivals for denying her party a place in the next Irish Government.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has ruled out entering a coalition with the left-leaning party because of historic links to the IRA.

Ms. McDonald told a party meeting in Belfast: “The political establishment of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are circling the wagons in defense of a status quo that will not deliver the change citizens voted for last weekend. Because they don’t want change. That is why they said they wouldn’t talk to us. And it now seems that Micheál Martin’s plan is to deny the people what they voted for. That is an arrogant and untenable position, given the strength of Sinn Féin’s mandate.”

Mr. Martin told a party meeting last week that they could not seek a deal with the left wing republicans because of the damage they would do to the country. …

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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: europe; fiannafail; finegael; ira; ireland; maryloumcdonald; michealmartin; sinnfein; varadkar

1 posted on 02/15/2020 9:13:53 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...

How dare they not make a terrorist party one of Ireland’s majority coalition !


2 posted on 02/15/2020 9:24:19 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy

Bitch, your terrorist party got less than a quarter of the vote so shut the hell up!


3 posted on 02/15/2020 9:33:43 PM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: Olog-hai

The island is now a total sh*thole anyway.


4 posted on 02/15/2020 9:51:06 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Impy

A plague on all three parties’ houses. All 3 are pro-abortion. All 3 are on board with the gay agenda. All 3 are slaves to Soros’ influenced globalism. All 3 would subordinate their country to the EU. Imagine if our country’s Democrats were split into 3 wings. Rooting for Fine Gael over Sinn Fein is like rooting for Nancy Pelosi over AOC. Ideally, itd be nice if they’d both lose.


5 posted on 02/15/2020 11:39:48 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: Olog-hai

Did ya think about changing the name to ‘Finn Sein’ and perhaps rewording a few of the party’s basic foundational statements???


6 posted on 02/16/2020 12:28:25 AM PST by Oscar in Batangas (January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Dublin is full of leftists. Diversity gone wild


7 posted on 02/16/2020 5:17:57 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (Committee to Re-Elect the President ( CREEP ))
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To: Olog-hai

Leftist Europhile scum here in Britain have been cheering SF’s victory as a way of expressing popular discontent ‘without resorting to racism’* Their morality is so warped that they think voting for a party still governed by a paramilitary terrorist group responsible for thousands of brutal murders throughout Ireland and England is OK because the Sinn Fein is left wing and the Tories/Brexit Party are right wing.

*Racism of course, is for hostility towards “victim” demographics, not the English, as per the left’s ‘power plus prejudice’ redefinition of racism.


8 posted on 02/16/2020 6:07:45 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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