Terry Prone: More questions than answers after Mary Lou's interview on Brian Stanley
As a communications case study, the latest happenings in Sinn Féin are a doozy, writes Terry Prone
Mary Lou McDonald. The Sinn Féin leader has been so long in condemning speech mode that she can’t let go of it. Which is just about okay when you’re in the right. Questionable when you’re in a more equivocal position.
A clever Sinn Féin person came up with the idea of referring the Brian Stanley issue to An Garda Síochána. A clever person who wasn’t nearly clever enough.
The cleverness lies in the chilling effect of anything being hospital-passed to the policing system. It buys time, like a Dealz version of sub judice.
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