Sinn Fein? They have gone away, you know.

[Milltown Row2]

The evolution of Michelle O'Neill is nothing short of remarkable. She has genuine presence and prowess now in front of camera, her delivery is on point, watching parts of the speech yesterday and today she strikes me as a stateswoman with the potential to achieve even more

She's very good, though at the start I did struggle to understand what she was saying. She's slowed her speech now, do all Tyronies speak that fast?

[Duine Inteacht Eile]

The evolution of Michelle O'Neill is nothing short of remarkable. She has genuine presence and prowess now in front of camera, her delivery is on point, watching parts of the speech yesterday and today she strikes me as a stateswoman with the potential to achieve even more

She's very good, though at the start I did struggle to understand what she was saying She's slowed her speech now, do all Tyronies speak that fast?

That's a lazy exaggeration that jumped out of social media satire. She spoke a bit faster than most at the beginning but she was definitely intelligible.

[Milltown Row2]

She spoke fast and at times I struggled to understand what she was saying! That's not a lazy media exaggeration.

She's able to speak with authority, timing and people sit up and take notice when she speaks.

[Duine Inteacht Eile]

There's not a chance you couldn't understand what she was saying.

There must be a clip out there of one of these unintelligible speeches??

[Milltown Row2]

There's not a chance you couldn't understand what she was saying.

There must be a clip out there of one of these unintelligible speeches??

Ok, I'm lying. Move on

[Duine Inteacht Eile]

👍

[RedHand88]

The evolution of Michelle O'Neill is nothing short of remarkable. She has genuine presence and prowess now in front of camera, her delivery is on point, watching parts of the speech yesterday and today she strikes me as a stateswoman with the potential to achieve even more

She's very good, though at the start I did struggle to understand what she was saying. She's slowed her speech now, do all Tyronies speak that fast?

Yes, surely you've come across this before as a referee?

[Tony Baloney]

It's a particularly low bar the electorate have set if stringing a few intelligible sentences together is to be congratulated.

[Armagh18]

It's a particularly low bar the electorate have set if stringing a few intelligible sentences together is to be congratulated.

don't think anyones saying that. But you know that anyway.

[Sportacus]

Michelle is a bit of nightmare for Unionists. There's a friendliness about her which is engaging, she's competent, calm and good on camera.
She'll come under a level of scrutiny now which she hasn't experienced yet.  Just look at Sturgeon in Scotland - they'll get you eventually.
All the same she was a shrewd pick.

[Mikhail Prokhorov]

It's a particularly low bar the electorate have set if stringing a few intelligible sentences together is to be congratulated.

the electorate in the north vote for a flag ffs

they are more than happy to keep getting funded from britain

the status quo was underpinned yesterday 

[Armagh18]

Michelle is a bit of nightmare for Unionists. There's a friendliness about her which is engaging, she's competent, calm and good on camera.
She'll come under a level of scrutiny now which she hasn't experienced yet.  Just look at Sturgeon in Scotland - they'll get you eventually.
All the same she was a shrewd pick.

I definitely had doubts about her when she first took over but she is now coming across really well and has the brains to try and appeal to both sides unlike the bitter f**kers in the DUP. Seems to be a decent amount of respect from reasonable unionists for her although obviously the knuckle draggers that support Allister will never come round.

[Duine Inteacht Eile]

It's a particularly low bar the electorate have set if stringing a few intelligible sentences together is to be congratulated.

If this level of comprehension is within the ballpark of the standard then the speed at which Michelle O'Neill talks is entirely irrelevant.

[LC]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-68196008

Starting to get their ducks lined up in a row already.

If nothing really improves (which is highly likely) they can all stand back and point the finger as Westminster and say it is all there fault because they did not pony up the £££.  Easier to do and less damaging when it comes to elections instead of having to make hard calls when it comes to generating revenue.

[Kidder81]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-politics-68196008

Starting to get their ducks lined up in a row already.

If nothing really improves (which is highly likely) they can all stand back and point the finger as Westminster and say it is all there fault because they did not pony up the £££.  Easier to do and less damaging when it comes to elections instead of having to make hard calls when it comes to generating revenue.

They have been doing that for years in fairness, it wouldn't be anything new. None of them willing to make difficult decisions and will leave the difficult decisions in Health to Swann