Sinn Féin just can’t escape controversy.
In the latest front-page splash in a four-week slog for the party, a member has resigned after admitting involvement in vandalising the portrait of a former lord mayor in Belfast City Hall.
Belfast City Council launched an investigation on Monday into reports the portrait of former DUP councillor and MLA Wallace Browne was removed from the wall of the Great Hall and the glass within its frame was smashed on Saturday night.
An event celebrating 20 years of west Belfast Irish language group Glór na Móna had been taking place at City Hall earlier that evening – the group disowned the incident and condemned it.
New guidelines on inclusive language issued by Stormont’s Department of Finance have discouraged the use of words like ‘guys’, ‘kiddo’ and ‘old-school’. The guide has been criticised by the TUV, who have asked who was consulted in created the document.
Is it sensible or over the top wokery?
And support for the Union has dropped to under 50%, according to an Irish News poll.
Ciarán Dunbar is joined by Dublin based news reporter Gráinne Ní Aodha and commentator and politics lecturer David McCann to talk politics.
Sinn Féin’s woes – self-inflicted, a media pile on, or a lack of professionalism?
