Sinn Féin’s woes – self-inflicted, a media pile on, or a lack of

Sinn Féin’s woes – self-inflicted, a media pile on, or a lack of professionalism?

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Sinn Féin controversies snowball as party member resigns after a portrait is damaged in Belfast City. Is the party suffering from a media pile-on before an election or a self-inflicted meltdown caused by a lack of professionalism? All this just before an election – one which might feature well-known crime figure Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch. Ciarán Dunbar is joined by Dublin based news reporter Gráinne Ní Aodha and commentator and politics lecturer David McCann to talk politics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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