Sinn Féin Sees Rise In Support Among Catholic Voters After Party Gave Job References For Sex Offender

EMBROILED in scandal following the news that party members furnished former Sinn Féin PR officer Michael McMonagle with two references for a job with a charity despite being McMonagle being charged with child sex offences, Sinn Féin could be forgiven for fearing a further drop in support from voters angered by such shocking conduct.

However, the nationalist party is now mopping up support from a demographic fewer and fewer parties are seeking to court; staunch elderly Catholics in the south who turned a blind eye to clerical abuse scandals.

“Mishandling sex abuse allegations, and actually endorsing the offender by giving him job references? I’ve finally found a party worth supporting again,” said one elderly Catholic, who consistently refers to the church’s decades of abuse as ‘hardly worth complaining about’.

Recently losing support among younger lapsed Catholics, Sinn Féin now poll highest among octogenarians who think the Magdalene Laundries put manners on uppity women, and always say ‘it takes two to tango’ when a priest is accused of unspeakable crimes.

Changing their tune more times than a 6,000-song Spotify playlist, Sinn Féin’s contradictory statements seeking to clarify what the party knew about allegations, when and what action they took have been less convincing than a portrait of Gerry Adams ordered off Temu.

“This is typical of the anti-Sinn Féin media agenda in Ireland, why are you asking me questions about why we didn’t make the Assembly aware of the allegations, why we failed to get McMonagle’s security pass back from him, why I blamed the British Heart Foundation for believing the job references they received from Sinn Féin personnel,” complained First Minister Michell O’Neill.

O’Neill was then interrupted by a colleague who informed her they would have to issue a new updated statement to the updated statement on events after the British Heart Foundation corrected Sinn Féin’s claims it had only heard about the references debacle last week, as the BHF spoke to a senior Sinn Féin official about the references last year.

Elsewhere, newly converted Sinn Féin supporters have asked if the party need any help driving someone to a different parish just say the word.