Although the Sinn Féin leadership – backed by an efficient press office and disciplinary process that brooks little dissent – is pivoting markedly on immigration and other issues, it appears the new line is not being universally accepted internally.
While Mary Lou and others such as Cork South Central TD Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire are enthusiastically tooting on the For Roysh “dog whistle” of “ no open borders” Gript has it on good authority that quite a number of prominent members including sitting TDs, Senators, MLAs and several candidates for the European and local elections are far from happy.
Their unease with the shift is mostly being expressed in private or by their not speaking on the relevant issues, but some of the dissatisfaction is being expressed through social media. Unsurprisingly, much of this has been through staff in Leinster House who it is fair to say are the cohort most at odds with the views of Sinn Féin supporters on immigration, and indeed on other issues dear to the soft and not-so-soft left who dominate the ideological sphere within Sinn Féin.
Public protests on the government’s immigration policies have created difficulties for Sinn Féin as their local elected representatives and candidates can not be seen at them. Firstly, if they do turn up they are generally badly received by people they have until recent weeks and for several years smeared as “racists” and “fash.” Secondly, because to do so would identify them with one side and thus risk losing part of their vote that comes from the liberal left.
Richard Gallagher who is an advisor to Donegal Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty took to Twitter yesterday to describe the entirely peaceful protestors at Newtownmountkennedy on Sunday as “far-right racist thugs”.
It is difficult to imagine that Pearse would either say such a thing himself about protestors in Donegal, and one wonders if he is overly happy that his advisor is sharing this view of potential, and more than likely actual, Sinn Féin voters with the world at large.
Senator Niall Ó Donnghaile is another who is not only displeased with the people of Newtownmountkennedy – who he knows to be “fascists, racists and bigots” – but sees in it all some bizarre connection with the Spanish Civil War. #NoPasaran. Seriously, what is all that about? Infantilism or just silliness? Make up your own mind.
Others to take to the Twittersphere to condemn the Newtownmountkennedy protestors are Dublin European Parliament candidate Lynn Boylan who retweeted a post calling for arrests, including it would seem of rival election candidates.
Boylan would be another who inhabits the strange world of retro 1930s “anti-fascism” although the concept of what potentially constitutes “fash” has evolved somewhat from lads who fought for Franco as opposed to Stalin to include not only working class and rural Wicklow people and Dubs in East Wall and Finglas whose votes she is now seeking but even left feminists, or “TERFs”, who believe in biological rather than notional sex and gender.
It is also noticeable that Sinn Féin TDs are placing more Parliamentary Questions which can be relayed back to constituents as evidence of their concern over issues including even the accommodation of Ukrainians who have been granted Temporary Protection.
The trick of course is to be able to play the part of Tadhg a dhá thaobh; speaking out of both sides of your mouth, riding two horses. Some of them are very good at this, but it is difficult especially when you are appealing to a large number of voters who are clearly as divided on key issues such as immigration, and indeed the recent referendums and the “hate speech” legislation as Party staff.
Sinn Féin’s problem is that its public stance over the last many years has been the opposite to that of quite a considerable number of its own voters. Which is not generally an insurmountable problem for any opportunistic party – that’s most of them by the way – as you just say what you think your voters wish you to say.
Which is Sinn Féin’s latest gambit. The difficulty with that, however, is that a large number – certainly the majority of staffers and party officials – of key people including elected representatives are genuinely and strongly committed to the opposite view. They are left liberals for whom “open borders” and “diversity” and “multiculturalism” are as central to their worldview as Irish unity and sovereignty and opposition to British rule in Ireland once were for prominent republicans.
The party machine can handle this for the moment as they can tell people to “shut up” or even “get the fuck out” as they did to republicans who dissented over Sinn Féin’s whole hearted acceptance of abortion on demand and administering Partition through Stormont. The shock troops for that being the very same faction now at odds with the “core group” of unelected apparatchiks enforcing the immigration pivot.
This will not be possible to manage in the long term, and perhaps not even in the short term which includes the June elections. How they go will be crucial in resolving or aggravating the internal party tensions.
Of course, the two main parties are as clueless in recognising Sinn Féin’s weaknesses as they were in 2020 when rabbiting on about historical events and worse, having a Minister sing the praises of the gentle Black and Tans. In attacking the Shinners as “far right” because of their immigration pivot they are shoring up their core vote.
Those posts from sinn fein are just pure hateful against the irish people. They are literally attacking the irish people with them. One thing is for sure, sinn fein are going to take the biggest hammering of the lot of them as they have only proving that they are anti white, anti irish and anti nationalist which is a complete and utter paradox. If you want to know what sinn fein are like in power, look to the north and the lack of action and silence of the illegals flying and sailing into belfast to invade our country. Michelle is non existent on the subject. What a hateful racist horrible party. Sinn fein are sinn fucked in my view.
Sinn Fein have proven to be the greatest Traitors of all to the Irish People and Nation.
They offered hope as an alternative to the old stale legacy Parties of FF/FG.
They betrayed that hope, and time has revealed they are not nationalist but Marxist Open Borders ‘,woke ideologs,with no love for Ireland or its People.
Sinn Fein blew their chance to assume Power ,by their failure to support the plain People of Ireland ,but wasted their political capital supporting the fringe interests of LGBT+ ‘woke’ and every draconian policy of the Regime ,from Covid Lockdowns ,Hate Speech , EU Digital Censorship Bill, the recent dangerous Constitutional Referenda, the Migrant Pact,.the WHO treaty etc.
SF have been FAKE opposition in the Dail and have lost all credibility.
It is evident they exist in an ideological bubble and lost touch with the Peoples needs and concerns.
The SF political strategists, in their group thiink bubble, have failed badly and SF will return to the dustbin of History as a Party who promised much ..but took the wrong fork to a dead end on the political road and away from their base support due to irrational ideological extremiism
It genuinely truely sickens me. The irb which still exists are also freemason supporters of the plantation now as well, I reached out to them last year. I have to say they thought they ere in a position power until people started waking up and took the position of voting for anyone but them. Now they are on the back foot and are reversing course but having them still the same marxist rubbish on social media is just ridiculous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9B6dptMTi0
he is spot on apart from sending them all to ireland sooner are gov is out the better no main partys what so ever
If i was in charge lee, their would be a constant 24/7 bus service to send them north tbh, rushi shitsak is only doing this for votes but your man in the link is right, the people in the dail are donkeys and clueless. Im surprised there has not been an uprising already.
United Ireland is only way to secure our borders,the ending of civil war with ff/fg side excepting the crown’s offer of 26 counties hhas been a disaster for us ,micheal martin shafting of helen mcentee yesterday in belfast to please the crown is as low as you can go in irish politics, i be voting sinn fein for MEP and mattie mcgrath dauther for county council in june , mattie mcgrath and sinn fein in general election , fg have to pull the plug after martin’ s stunt inn belfast yesterday
Very true, Martin is less believable that tayto FFS. Is he for real, everyone knows he is a lying little parasite. None of them have produced the figures or evidence but we need out of the EU as well. They are lunatics and the parasites do their bidding with interest.
Why would you want to vote for anyone in Sinn Féin if you want secure borders? It doesn’t make sense. They’ll be worse than FF/FG.
Sinn Féin are for ‘no limits’ on immigration. Áine Ní Chonaill exposed their open-borders mass immigration policy in the Oireachtas at the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality hearing for Undocumented Migrants in Ireland reminding us that Sinn Féin voted for unanimously and passed ‘Motion 26’ at the 1998 Ard Fheis for ‘no restriction on immigration into Ireland’.
For what it’s worth, Aontú are a slightly watered down version of SF. They outline their policy on a page on their website
Here, see it for yourself. The Oireachteas hearing – less than 2mins long
That clip tells you all you need to know about Sinn Fein. The flip flop party who change their positions more often than the wind changes direction.
Well said James 100% agree. They now know the people see who they really are, another globalist owned anti nationalist, anti Irish spoke in the Irish political establishment.
Turn off the welfare tap and watch the country empty, redirect the NGO billions to repatriate all illegal immigrants, fakeugees and economic scammers.
I’d like to see money redirected to also be spent on repatriating elderly Irish marooned in England and elsewhere that would like to return to live at home but are unable to afford to.
I cant wait to see the next election results where they will be decimated and deservedly so too. All of them are gone very quiet in the back ground.
As life long voter of SF, as did all my family, following our discussions SF will no longer be getting my or my family vote, and many other’s I have spoken with feel the same, SF welcoming Islamic extremists to Ireland, prevention is better than the cure and one way to stop it is get them out, no more votes,, it’s time Mary Lue followed Leo and start there own punch and Judy show with all the free time they will now have.
Just be aware, if you are considering switching to Aontú of their policy on immigration –
Immigration (aontu.ie)
Here is some of what they say – “Many working-class areas are already suffering from the lack of housing, GPs, school places and transport. Proposing to bring 500 people into an area that is deprived must be accompanied by a community dividend and real investment into housing and services.”
So, they’ve no problem dumping 500 people into an area….so long as there is a ‘community dividend’ whatever that means! and an ‘investment into housing and services’. Sounds like FG/FF policy of creating gravy trains for their pals
and
” Finally, this state does have international responsibilities. We must do what we can. “
Again with the “international responsibilities”.
“Aontú seeks a migration plan that meets our obligations as a people, is economically and culturally enriching, humanitarian“
Economically enriching – for some, sure. Culturally enriching? I think I’ll make my own curries from now on. The downsides aren’t worth it.
Plenty more in that link to get an idea of what they propose. Not for me anyway.
That’s buzz word bingo from Aontu.
Proposing to bring 500 people into an area that is deprived must be accompanied by a community dividend and real investment into housing and services.”- FG/FF (& Aontú) policy of creating gravy trains for their pals
Here’s an example of this occurring right now in real time of this corruption while at the same time discriminating against native local Irish (2 mins clip)- TheIrishWatchdog on X: “82 x New Modular Homes going into a greenfield site in Clonmel. Each building costing a whopping €140,000. That’s €11.5 million. Where was the tendering? Who is making money from this? How many Tipperary families are on the housing list? Unanswered questions. #ClonmelSaysNo https://t.co/2PLBaABAao” / X (twitter.com)
He mentions the current case a few miles down the road, of a man in his 60’s Sean Meehan , who put up his own cabin on his own land in order to have a roof over his head. Check out the difference in the cost of Sean’s cabin and the cost the Government are shaking down the tax-payers for
Example of economically enriching (FF/FG gravy train for their pals) happening right now in Tipperary. This may turn out be the next Newtownmountkennedy. Definitely one to keep an eye and spread the word about.
It’s time Marylou stopped blooming.
SF are simply returning the support they received from the Middle East Lunatics in the 70s and 80s. They have no regard for the Irish people.
John Brady, the TD O/C of Wicklow, had some very hassch words to say about Newtownmountkennedy which he seems to want to burn to the ground.One of the Newtown leaders is smeared because of his priopr military serfice, which gave him some much needed and appreciated organisational and negotiating skills. Sound leadership like that, rahter than the threats of Sinn Fein is the way forward.
Lynn Boyaln, who initiated the Idtnetity Irleand pogrom with self styled businessman “Dr” Umar al Qadri, came to politics, via study in England and then an NGO and electoral run uin her Irish name in Kery. Eoin O’Brien her/his better half,.also studied in England and then came to Dublin via Belfast. Very odd trajectories.
Alan Whelan, Sinn Loose Change’s man in East Wall, seems to be off his meds if his infflamoatory statements are anything to go by.
June is a chance to begin the process of giving all the political parties their P45s and sending Sinn Fein back to their diesel laundering buddies or the diole queues, which they should never have been allowed leave.
A blight worse than the Redcoats.
I just laugh now when i hear or read anything coming from anyone involved with sinn fein. They will go down in irish history as the worst ever main opposition party to a sitting government, and this is coming from someone that voted for sinn fein in the last three elections. Their new campaign slogan when it comes to Ireland should be, Britain and Irish out, everyone else in.
Good.
Split the party.
Let the left loons see how popular the views of the new Inimirce Sinn Féin party are with the country.
But don’t vote for the old one, either.
“Terf cutter”, and once again the poison of Trans ideology rears it’s ugly head, proving beyond doubt that these vile, evil men are at the center of everything cancerous in Irish society.
The curvature of hard-left thought loops around in an arc until it meets the beheading-philosophy of Salafi jihadists at the other end.
If ‘terf’ is a name for a biological man/woman, wouldn’t one assume that ‘terf cutter’ was potentially incitement to violence against biological men/women? What else could ‘terf cutter’ mean, other than something that cuts ‘terfs’.
TERF = Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist. It’s almost exclusively used as a slur against women. It doesn’t refer to biological sex.
It’s the new way of calling a woman a witch!
Well, then, is it incitement to violence against women?
Sure is. But some women use the word, I think because the word then looses its power. If u look at the slogans on the TRA banners they are all explicitly insulting and threatening with terf used instead of women. I don’t mind the TERF word as much as the cis one, that gets on my nerves, I’m not a sub set of my own sex to suit a few women hating weirdos
Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou called for unlimited refugees to enter Ireland making the housing crisis worse for Irish people. There are now hundreds of thousands of additional asylum seekers in Ireland filling up very limited Irish accommodation.
Sinn Fein are traitors to the Irish people.
Sinn Fein ” never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity” (Seamus Mallon)
These people are robots — it’s laughable — some time ago, on social media people started to use NPC to refer to them — they mindlessly repeat ‘racist’, ‘far-right’, etc, as if it’s some kind of argument.
They’ve learned this from the media — this is the approved view as communicated by the media — they are generally psychologically weak people who easily and willingly align themselves with the media consensus — it’s safe.
Whenever you have a chance, throw a hint to people that this kind of thing is just dumb ad hominem, it’s not an argument, and they should not be swayed by it — they should think through the issues themselves, and make up their own minds, and not fear being called names.
Sinn Fein members sound like parrots. They are given a few buzz words like ‘equality’, ‘ inclusion’ ‘ far right’ etc. and keep repeating them every time they open their mouths.
Sinn Fascists are traitors to the Irish people. I will never vote for them. They are criminals and communists who will do anything to get power.
Yupp… they are asking us to vote for marxism in it’s hardest form!
Really seems that SF has been infiltrated big time by the lefty middle class Marxist brigades.
Well look at Labour for the next stages in decline.
Sinn Fein has been hijacked. Unfortunately too many of their supporters have not yet woken up to that reality as can be seen from the comment of one their supporters on here.
Don’t trust any politicians.
They’ll destroy anything they touch.
Voted SF all my life. Shocked at their open borders and everyone welcome policy.
They offered small opposition to the govt in recent years on housing but completely backed the govt on immigration and the referendum.
For these reasons I’ll be voting independents and smaller parties that address immigration sensibly
Opening Irish borders to imports of firearms, ammo and the things the good people of Ireland need to win their revolution makes sense.
Eliminating reasonable restrictions on migration is ludicrous.
The WEF lackeys running Ireland as a satrapy for Klaus Schwab are tyrants who’ve begun to rule (not govern) Ireland. Ireland didn’t tolerate subjugation to the greatest Empire in the world at the time. No Irishman will tolerate subjugation to a tinpot dictator representing the pathetic excuse for an empire that is the EU.
The EU is actually pretty funny. They rule by doling out fabricated fiat Euros (not real money like gold/silver) and by brainwashing the public. If physically challenged, no part of the EU could survive a determined physical confrontation with a well armed and trained opponent.
The EU is collapsing when attacked by Muslims, who aren’t brainwashed by EU insanity. They would also crumble if attacked by Russia or Turkey – countries with real armies.
Ireland just needs to leave the EU and retake Irish sovereignty for the Irish people.
sinn fein and independences will get irish house back in order , i persume there will be a new corruption court set to tackle the last 30 years of brown envelope politics
You’re getting worse at this, which I wouldn’t have thought possible
A clown living in his own circus.