I sometimes feel like a dog without a kennel over here. I have been disillusioned with Sinn Fein for some time. I am near afraid to say that these days because you gain the unwarranted title of being a "dissident".

I also think any new campaign by the various groups engaging in an armed struggle is futile, they are going nowhere besides Maghaberry Prison or Portlaoise Jail. As soon as a group is set up, it is infiltrated, every operation they seem to plan ends at a police checkpoint with three or four arrests. I doubt the police depend on a crystal ball.

Ivor Bell is no lover of Adams, but I believe him when he said he never spoke throughout his interviews. Mrs. McConville should never have been murdered, a typical example of the actions of this individual who couldn't see the consequences of his actions, in fact he couldn't see past his ego in those days.

There are that many conspiracy theories over here, we could export them.

I had a doorstep debate with a new face on the block for Sinn Fein last week, he was boasting about how they embraced policing and influenced decisions, I can only imagine how he feels now after the arrest.

I think we are paying too much attention to the SF soap-opera as they are acting as if it is the end of the world. Was McGuinness boasting or did he make a blunder when he spoke publicly of his new "friends in very high places." Inviting him to toast the Queen might be a good indicator that they are grooming him for a new role, who knows.

I am curious as to why SF supporters don't question this confusing relationship the party have with the higher echelons of the British establishment. McGuinness is not a head of state he is 2nd fiddle in an extremely volatile Assembly.

I remain indifferent to Adams' voluntary detention as SF has been extremely consistent with their unconcerned policy of other republicans being arrested. Now their leader handed himself over to police the apologist Mc Guinness is not condemning the police instead he has deliberately hyped his star wars theory that a "minority of the dark forces" are behind Adams arrest.

Placing minimal blame on the law makes absolutely no sense. he is suggesting that a rogue element within the police are out to get SF. So his friends in high places within the police are the good cops and those who Adams handed himself over to are the bad cops. Is he saying that the policing they agreed to is somehow faulty when it comes to high ranking members of his party ?



I repeat I see this as a PR stunt to attempt to get the republican vote in the local and European elections on the 22nd May.

They keep repeating that Adams handed himself in. If SF see this as a pre-election nightmare then they should ask the leader what vision he had.