To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. Senator Elisha McCallion and two Sinn Fein … The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Senator Elisha McCallion stepped down alongside two other party members, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). There has been calls from calm in Northern Ireland following a week of riots and violence on a scale not seen in recent years. They will not be required to swear the oath of allegiance. Senior members of Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland have been warned of threats against their lives after attending a PSNI recruitment event. The Cuban visit can be seen as reassurance to those party activists who are unhappy that Sinn Féin might be shedding its one-time radicalism, and going too far to maintain relations with the United States," wrote David McKittrick in Dublin's centrist Irish Independent (Dec. 19). McCallion said in a statement: "I fully accept that as a named signature on the account that I should have taken steps to verify this situation, before it was brought to my attention on Monday," she said. Mourning stretched over three days and two cemeteries and involved about 3,000 mostly unmasked people — including O’Neill, Murphy, the current and former Sinn Féin leaders Mary Lou McDonald and Gerry Adams, and more than 20 other party lawmakers. London's liberal Guardian wrote on Dec 14: "Four of Sinn Féin's candidates were elected to the British parliament in the June 2001 election. View our online Press Pack. Each MP will receive over £100,000 for the upkeep of an office, hiring of staff, and travel and accommodation expenses. “This is a perverse decision showing fear and favour. THREE members of Sinn Fein have resigned from the party over the incorrect handling of Covid-19 grants in Northern Ireland. Deirdre Hargey sets out the plan to radically transform housing in the North. For 30 years, many regarded Sinn Féin as no more than a propaganda machine for the terrorist campaign waged by its armed wing, the Irish Republican Army, against British rule in Northern Ireland. Though unionists remain the majority in Northern Ireland, former British Secretary to Northern Ireland Peter Mandelson said, in widely reported comments from a recent interview, that Ireland may be united in Gerry Adams' lifetime. The first was party president Gerry Adams' visit to Cuba. Sinn Féin vice president and northern leader Michelle O'Neill speaks to the media at Stormont, Jan. 9, 2020 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Moreover, links to the Marxist Colombian terrorist outfit, the FARC, who are said to finance their operations through the drugs trade, is another. After her father’s death in 2006, Martin McGuinness said: "The Doris family are a well-known and respected republican family and have played a significant role in the republican struggle for many years.” O’Ne… A visit by Boris Johnson to Northern Ireland to promote its centenary and response to Covid-19 has triggered a political row with Sinn Féin, which branded his visit a publicity stunt. They belong to a party with more MPs than several others at Westminster. Her father Brendan Doris was a former IRA prisoner turned Sinn Féin councillor in Dungannon. Matt Carthy on the establishment's effort to rewrite history. SINN FEIN was accused of "rewriting Irish history again" in the run-up to the centenary celebration of Northern Ireland by a Belfast commentator. The three say they were in Colombia to observe peace efforts. Sinn Féin Ireland was live. Ostensibly, the trip to Cuba was to unveil a plaque commemorating the 10 Irish republican prisoners, seven of whom seven were members of the IRA, who died in the 1981 hunger strike in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison. While the Cuban adventure and the granting of parliamentary privileges dominated press coverage of Sinn Féin at the end of last year, it was a monumental year in the peace process, capped by the October disarmament of the IRA, "…a move which …signaled in a convincing way that it wasn't just this campaign against Britain that had ended but the ancient war itself. Last year the party raised more than US$1 million from corporate Irish-American backers, according to London's liberal The Observer. The party is a major player in the precarious Northern Ireland peace process—in place since 1998—and is responsible for the ongoing IRA ceasefire. Deirdre Heenan: The Sinn Féin funeral controversy won’t go away, and with good reason The decision not to prosecute Sinn Féin members who breached Covid-19 restrictions at the funeral of republican Bobby Storey last summer has further fuelled public outrage Sean Keenan, John Foley and 2 others like this. / Charles McQuillan/Getty Images. Despite the Sinn Fein political tsunami in the South, it was business as usual at Stormont. TWO SINN Féin members of the Oireachtas have suggested that the tricolour's status as the national flag could be "up for discussion" as part of efforts to secure a united Ireland. While Sinn Féin (Gaelic for "Ourselves Alone") has committed itself to achieving a united Ireland through political means, two events last month serve to illustrate the ambiguities of a party wedded to the painful past of Northern Ireland, yet committed to a future that is free of the violent past. THREE members of Sinn Fein have resigned from the party over the incorrect handling of Covid-19 grants in Northern Ireland. The hunger strike was started to highlight the prisoners' demands to be treated as political prisoners, not criminals (most of the demands were met, though not until the hunger strikes were called off). In this way Gerry Adams and his colleagues have done something that neither de Velara nor Collins [previous republican leaders] could do or dared do," wrote Ed Moloney in Dublin's liberal Sunday Tribune (Dec. 30). Senior Sinn Féin figures are expected to learn later whether they will face action over alleged breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of senior republican Bobby Storey. Since the imposition of abortion onto Northern Ireland by the British Government, abortions up to 24 weeks – and up to birth if the child has a disability – have been made lawful in the region. Eilish McCallion apologised and said that she did not apply for the grant. Since 1981, Sinn Féin has run in elections in Northern Ireland for election to the British Parliament—hunger striker Bobby Sands was the first Sinn Féin member elected to parliament (he died days after winning)—but when elected, Sinn Féin members refuse to take their seats in the House of Commons, as this would amount to recognizing British jurisdiction over Northern Ireland. An estimated 2,000 people including Gerry Adams and the Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald, attended the funeral of Storey, a former IRA intelligence chief who died of cancer. Sinn Féin members have quit the party and its youth organisation due to controversies over alleged homophobia and racism. It is expected to increase their representation after elections are held later this year. The fact that it was followed by the attacks of Sept. 11 has compounded a, perhaps belated, sense of outrage at Sinn Féin inside America." Ten of them have already died in the most moving gesture of sacrifice, selflessness, and courage one could ever imagine," (the British delegation walked out of the conference as Castro was speaking). Joining Shane this morning to discuss this is Sinn Fein … S. enior Sinn Fein figures are expected to learn later whether they will face action over alleged breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of a senior republican. "The timing could not have been worse," said Ronan Fanning in the same paper (Dec. 23). The party contested the 1908 North Leitrim by-election, where it secure… Sinn Féin is an Irish Republican party. Sinn Fein's new leader in Northern Ireland, 40-year-old Michelle O'Neill, was mobbed by supporters as the results rolled in. Party leader Mary Lou McDonald said she accepted the resignations of the three members responsible for receiving the grant money and not returning it. The U.S. Department of State was also furious, according to press reports. While Sinn Féin members will still refuse to serve in the British parliament, they will have an office at Westminster and access to its research facilities. Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill and Policing Board member Gerry Kelly became the party's first representatives to attend such an event last week. Around 2,000 mourners attended the event, seemingly running afoul of Covid-19 … To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Mr. Allister also said, in his opinion, the decision not to prosecute was a sign that "Sinn Fein, not the PSNI, rules Northern Ireland". The Bushs are also the most anti-Castro political family ever to sit in the White House.". 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Sinn Féin has one member elected to the 166-member Irish parliament and about 20 members elected to local councils in the Irish Republic. The heightened sensibility within the United States since Sept. 11 regarding groups with terrorist connections is one factor. Here JASON JOHNSON looks at what the Sinn Fein uprising really means for Northern Ireland. "The Bush family is the most pro-British dynasty to govern the United States since the Second World War. The trip to Cuba, and subsequent meeting with Fidel Castro, caused chagrin among Sinn Féin's supporters in the United States, who saw the visit to a country on the U.S. Deptartment of State's list of countries that sponsor terrorism as a kick in the teeth after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Officials at the State Department were already seething over the three suspected IRA members arrested in Colombia in August 2001 and charged with colluding with armed guerillas there. It seeks national self-determination, the unity and independence of Ireland as a sovereign state. 2001 was the year which saw the last bridge topple into the water and that is why it will always be regarded as an historic one. Sinn Féin have 27 MLAs in the Northern Ireland Assembly (most recent election in 2017): They [Sinn Féin] have burned all the important ideological bridges behind them. Since 1981, Sinn Féin has run in elections in Northern Ireland for election to the British Parliament—hunger striker Bobby Sands was the first Sinn Féin member elected to parliament (he died days after winning)—but when elected, Sinn Féin members refuse to take their seats in the House of Commons, as this would amount to recognizing British jurisdiction over Northern Ireland. However the likelihood of US$10,000-per-plate fundraisers for Sinn Féin in New York appears to be on the wane. Last but not least, Sinn Fein is no longer the political wing of an active terrorist movement." "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. But the past three years have seen Sinn Féin edge into mainstream politics. Sinn Féin, which operates in both Ireland and Northern Ireland, is a left-wing, nationalist, populist, republican (in the sense that it favors uniting the Irish people under one republic) party. Sinn Féin is unique in that it fields candidates in both the Irish Republic (which constitutes the greater part of Ireland—26 of the 32 counties, all overwhelmingly Catholic—that gained independence in 1922) and the United Kingdom (the official name for the Union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland). It is ironic, then, that the British government will become the party's single largest contributor. The unrest is believed to have been triggered by anger over the decision not to prosecute Sinn Fein members who attended the June funeral of senior IRA figure Bobby Storey. Sinn Fein’s all-island bona fides were further strengthened by Saturday’s vote: It can now claim a Sinn Fein member of parliament in all 32 counties of both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Senator Elisha McCallion and two Sinn Fein officials have stepped down after it was revealed that three-party offices incorrectly received Covid-19 grants. News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. Exclusive interview with Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald. It was the largest public gathering during Northern Ireland’s past year of lockdowns. Its objective is to end British rule in Ireland. Naomi Long, Northern Ireland’s justice minister and leader of the cross-community Alliance Party, said Democratic Unionist rhetoric was fueling loyalist violence. Sinn Féin makes gains in Northern Ireland ... to secure a return to a Stormont legislature that is being cut from 108 to 90 members. The second event—announced while Adams, 53, was in Cuba—was the decision by the British government to grant parliamentary privileges to Sinn Féin's four members of parliament, without requiring them take an oath of allegiance to the "Queen, her heirs, and successors.". Adams initially distanced himself from them, but later admitted that one had been the Sinn Féin representative in Cuba who helped organize his visit. In the June 2001 elections for the Assembly, Sinn Féin overtook former Nobel Prize-winner John Hume's moderate nationalist party, the Social Democratic Labor Party (SDLP), as the leading nationalist party in Northern Ireland. The Department of State has granted visas to convicted IRA members—Adams included—since 1996, and has allowed Sinn Féin to open an office—used mostly for fundraising and lobbying efforts—in Washington. Sinn Féin is committed to the transformation of Irish society and to a negotiated and democratic settlement. On top of this, a visit to one of the last bastions of communism—highlighting Sinn Féin's Marxist political agenda (a 32-county Socialist Republic in Ireland has always been Sinn Fein's goal)—are compounding reasons for the anticipated decline in U.S- based support for Sinn Féin: "The two words drugs and Marxism have done more damage to Sinn Féin [in the United States] than the attack on the World Trade Center," said New York-based Irish Times reporter, Conor O' Cleary, in a recent interview with the BBC. The Northern Ireland Health Minister is under pressure from the political party Sinn Féin to roll out an abortion regime imposed by the British Government across Northern Ireland. As well as running candidates in the United Kingdom and Irish parliamentary elections, Sinn Féin also has members elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly—the power-sharing body of nationalists (most Catholics are nationalists and are the minority in Northern Ireland) and unionists (most Protestants are unionist—they wish to retain the union with the U.K.—and are the majority of Northern Ireland's 1.7 million people). At the time of the hunger strikes, Cuba's President Fidel Castro was vocal in his support of the prisoners, and at the opening of the 63rd Inter-Parliamentary Union held in Havana in 1981, said, "Irish patriots are writing one of the most heroic chapters in human history. Sinn Féin was founded on 28 November 1905, when, at the first annual Convention of the National Council, Arthur Griffith outlined the Sinn Féin policy, "to establish in Ireland's capital a national legislature endowed with the moral authority of the Irish nation". If Sinn Fein manages to enter into power, a promise to vote on Irish reunification (commonly known as a “border poll”) within the lifetime of that government is likely to be a key plank of the new administration’s agenda and a negotiating red line before any coalition is formed. But they will not receive an MP's salary because they do not take part in Commons sessions. O n Tuesday the Director of Public Prosecutions, Stephen Herron, announced that none of the 24 members of Sinn Fein who had been reported for attendance at … If Sinn Fein is successful in helping to build cross-border politics and engage with both sides of the border in a nonviolent and constructive way, the party will likely be viewed as successful in the eyes of its former IRA members in Northern Ireland. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. A Sinn Féin member of the Irish parliament has apologised for a tweet about an IRA bombing in which 18 soldiers were killed in 1979. The decision to extend party privileges to Sinn Féin means up to an additional £500,000 for them a year. … "I apologise unreservedly for the poor judgement I showed in relation to this and therefore, last night I spoke to the party leader and tendered my resignation as a member of Seanad Éireann with immediate effect. Its initial political platform was both conservative and monarchist, advocating for an Anglo-Irish dual monarchy unified with the British Crown (inspired by the Austro-Hungarian Compromise). They represent their constituents as other MPs do. The former Senator said that the money was repaid in full on Tuesday last. "The money was repaid in full on Tuesday. “It’s in their interest to keep the pot boiling at all times,” Long said, arguing that Democratic Unionist claims of a pro-Sinn Féin bias in police had “made police the lightning rod for that anger.” Alongside Seantor McCallion, the Chair of Upper Bann Comhairle Ceantair and a party official in West Tyrone resigned.
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