Please Demiurge, think about what you are saying.  If Adams wanted to enter Leinster House, and stay within the rules of the party there was a simple procedure to go through.  First he had to get a resolution passed by majority vote to amend Section 1b of the Sinn Féin constitution.  When this was done he could have quite legally proposed to enter Leinster House, or any where else for that matter.  As it happened he put himself and the rest of his supporters outside the party.  They continued on, of course, but not as the same party.   

Welcome back Damac – I thought you werent going to feed my “trolling” any more.  That was another gem from you, considering that it was me that started the thread in the first place, and I have hardly tried to distract the discussion from my central point. Which court exactly do you suggest RSF take its case to?  Its one thing for PSF to go pleading to British and Free State courts, but I don’t see RSF doing it.  And there you go with “provos” again.  How are you sure the rules of Sinn Féin were broken in 1917?  I never heard of it. Maybe you can add it to the new pre 1970  Sinn Féin page if you ever get around to doing it.  Talking about those who didn’t walk out of the Ard Fheis in 1986, I’d say, in hind sight, a lot of them wished they had.  Popularity at the polls, when the price of that popularity is disgarding what you stood for in the first place is a very hollow victory.