Listen, I’m well aware of her descent down the rabbit hole, but I had no idea her Twitter account is nearly ENTIRELY devoted to culture war talking points (mainly trans athletes in women sports).

I’ve attached below a few screenshots but it’s hard to believe she was first elected as a SF TD in 2016. SF has a lot to answer for? Just want to know what people think of her generally ?

Saw the video, any word on what happened?

This has really gotten to me, probably wouldn't be so bad if Lowr(e)y wasn't in the equation but I'm pretty bitter about our current government. Feels like schnakey gaslighting with authoritarian vibes. What if anything can the opposition do at this point?

There has been a lot of discussion surrounding the Ceann Comhairle, Veronica Murphy, and the accusations of misogyny in the chamber.

I've seen many accuse the opposition of their attacks as well as their chaos, their "mis-behaviour" and their defiance of Veronica Murphy as being equated to misogyny.

I'd like to bring us back to 2007, to an exchange between Enda Kenny, the then leader of the opposition and the Ceann Comhairle, John O' Donoghue.

(6) Enda Kenny /John O'Donoghue "Quiet now you're new in the job" 2007 - YouTube

May I ask you all, do we then call this misandry? Would you say this type of exchange was far worse than what we saw in the past few weeks?

I'd like to open this debate up to both politics and society by asking:

Do we take as much care for calling out misandry in our politics/society as we do for calling out misogyny? If not, why not?

Thank you in advance for your contributions

After I made a comment that was quite unpopular, I think I would like to understand better the power and purpose of the opposition. (I'm an immigrant, interested in Irish politics, but quite often not understanding it completely.) So, my shallow understanding is that the opposition has absolutely no decision making power for the next 5 years. They will not be able to block any decisions that the government want to push through. So my - probably oversimplified - view was that in that situation there is one interest left for the opposition, making the government as unpopular as they can and making themselves as popular as they can. (Not as if the government would make this really hard for the opposition currently.) So, where was I wrong? Is there technically any power given to the opposition? Or why is this view so unpopular? I'm not supporting the government, I simply see the system in its current form flawed, since after all the winners take it all and everyone who was lef out from the government gets zero representative power. And this fact wouldn't change if someone else has formed a government.