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Newton Emerson - aka William Frazer by any chance ? Must be a meember of FAIR http://www.victims.org.uk/main.html   

If you read the Irish News every Saturday you will know who Newton Emerson is.

Windmill v everyone

If a normal political party had an election result like Sinn Fein had there would be calls for Gerry Adams to step down.

How do you figure that? They got 4 seats on the back of 142,500 1st preference votes. Labour got 20 seats on 208,000 1st preference votes. Their 320573 1st preference votes in Ireland this year have solidified their position as the third largest politician party in the country. They also have 4 full ministries in the northern government. Hardly a disastrous few months.

Sinn Fein then must ask why did they get so few seats from so many votes.
Its a fact that they do not attract transfers unlike Labour and the Greens. If you can't attract transfers,you won't get seats.
Mary Lou Mac Donald was touted as all but elected in Dublin Central but failed.
Sean Crowe lost his seat having topped Dublin SW in 2002.
None of the four TDs returned topped the poll,three did in 2002.
Failed to gain a seat in Donegal or Sligo/Leitrim where they talked themselves up getting three.
The party leader being shot to pieces on national TV in a pre election debate.

Far too much focus on progress made in the north,not enough on real issues in the south.
Until Sinn Fein wake up,they will be nothing more than a protest vote in the south.

[MASSIVE JOE]

Should it not be MASSIVE JOE?

If a normal political party had an election result like Sinn Fein had there would be calls for Gerry Adams to step down.

But Sinn Fein are not a normal political party.

The first post here sounds like Joe Kernan

PR is all good but why did the Mc Canns go to Germany?

It amuses me that many northern nationalists support a team that is partitionist.

Point 1: The 26 county electorate invariably show their stuoidity time after time, continually voting for wnakers like Ahern and Harney, in spite of drastic failures,like Hospital trolleys, no clean water in Galway (Bertie is the Basil Fawlty of Irish politics).

Point 2: Sinn Fein has four seats in the Dail, which is one seat more than Michael Mc Didntdowell has personally and four seats more than the SDLP has (or ever will have in the Dail if they had the balls to stand), and four seats more than any Unionist party could win if they stood for Westminster in any constituency in England, Scotland and Wales.

Point 3: Combining Sinn Fein's votes in elections North and South, makes them a considerable force in Irish Politics. They have traditional heartlands in Kerry, North Dublin and the Border counties. As they develop and make their mark on Northern politics their vote in the 26 counties will only improve drastically unlike any of the other parties who are now at peak appeal in terms of electoral support

1: Get a donkey from a nearby field,throw a tricolour on it and it'll get elected in West Belfast.Very funny for a shinner to call the southern electorate thick.

2: Sinn Fein have four seats in the Dail.Thats one less before the election,and a lot less than 10 to 15 they said they were going to get.

3: Why did their vote in North Kerry, Cavan/Monaghan and Dublin go down if they are heartlands?