Sinn Fein

The Sinn Fein MLA said while at the time he was not aware that Finnegan was sexually abusing fellow pupils, everyone in the school knew about the explicit conversations he would try to instigate. "We knew it was wrong, it was inappropriate, that it was not natural for a man, particularly a priest, to behave ...

A senior Sinn Fein politician has revealed a notorious paedophile priest physically abused him when he was a schoolboy and tried to sexually groom him. Conor Murphy has recounted how the late Malachy Finnegan dragged him into an office and savagely beat him with a stick before asking a series of ...

When the new president of Sinn Fein took the podium at a recent political rally, she acknowledged she'll never fully replace her predecessor and mentor. "The truth is, my friends, I won't fill Gerry's shoes," Mary Lou McDonald told a crowd in Belfast last month. "But the news is that I brought my own.".

Every St. Patrick's Day for two decades, Gerry Adams or other leaders of Sinn Fein, the party once known primarily as the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, have come to the United States to lobby Washington politicians and rally Irish-American donors. This year there has been a new item on Mr.