To go after Patrick Kielty - of all people - was a bad look for the party that once stood for freedom of expression and fought against censorship
Memo to Sinn Féin HQ: get a sense of humour. Their behaviour this week has been a playbook in how to lose voters and alienate people. Don't be surprised if their popularity dips again in the polls after the song and dance they made over a bit of teasing on the Late Late Show .
The party of rebels are going on like prigs, overly-serious and defensive, primed for offence and playing the victim. It's a sad day for Ireland when the Shinners are now the champions of censorship, calling for jokes to be wiped off the record and public apologies for even making them.READ MORE Sinn Féin needed an intervention, but it never came. Now it's too late to save them
Back then, Sinn Féin were the ones to stand for civil liberties like freedom of expression and speech. Now you have Sinn Féin's Mairead Farrell calling for the joke to be removed from the player and for a live public apology from Kielty on the Late Late Show, like a spectacle from the struggle sessions of Communist China.
To come after Patrick Kielty - of all people - was a cringey act in biting the hand that feeds them. Kielty has led the biggest cultural change towards unification in Irish broadcasting, making the Late Late Show a truly all-Ireland affair.
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