Sinn Féin finding ink cartridges are more dangerous than gun cartridges

THE announcement of the EU referendum and the subsequent hari-kari within Fianna Fáil may have drawn attention away from Aengus Ó Snodaigh’s remarkable campaign of state-funded printing, but Sinn Féin’s seemingly relentless electoral rise could be checked by any more similar revelations.

It may have seemed relatively trivial in the greater scheme of things — and may have been quickly surpassed by those other events — but this self-inflicted hit was in the public eye for long enough to cause injury.

Sinn Féin may be about to find that there is more public outrage south of the border at the expense to the taxpayer of spent ink cartridges than at the maiming and killing caused by the gun cartridges that some of its members once emptied.