Two weeks on from the Paschal Donohoe poster saga emerging, Sinn Féin has been forced to submit its 2020 general election returns to the Standards in Public Office (Sipo) for a fourth time on foot of an “administrative error”.

Election spending

“I don’t know if you are interested in my answer or my head,” Paschal Donohoe barbed across the Dáil toward Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty in the sharpest clash of the day.

Party badly calculated the numbers back in 2020 and cannot afford to make the same mistake again