Ciara Phelan: Sinn Féin quiet under pressure

The party finally faces the music at the plinth at Leinster House
Ciara Phelan: Sinn Féin quiet under pressure

Sinn Féin's Eoin Ó Broin served as their sacrificial lamb stepping up alone to answer questions. Picture: Stephen Collins /Collins

Out Eoin Ó Broin came, the sacrificial lamb, emerging from wherever Sinn Féin TDs have been hiding for the past three weeks.

It was clear the party was avoiding the plinth at Leinster House with headlines about the use of legal action, a controversial book, and a former party councillor who has been jailed for facilitating one of the most high-profile gangland murders in the country.

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