Dáil committee on allegations - Defiant or simply delusional?

SINN FÉIN have always insisted that their version of the past is at least as valid as any other — no matter what they imagine it to be. 

Now it is not unusual for the present to be seen through the same insistent prism, irrespective of the views of others or the weight of evidence against it.

There is a single-mindedness, almost an admirable, unwavering single-mindedness, about how the party refuses to contemplate any point of view, or policy, that does not support its agenda or endorse its behaviour. They bring single-mindedness to a new, daunting level in Irish politics. This is one of the reasons, and there are many, that the party is neck-and-neck with the main government party, Fine Gael, in the polls at 24%.