ENG: Sinn Féin (SF) is a political party in Ireland. Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970 after a split within the party. Sinn Féin is led by Gerry Adams. It is the major party of Irish republicanism and its political ideology is left wing. The party has historically been associated with the Provisional IRA. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone".
Sinn Féin is currently the second-largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, where it has four ministerial posts (including deputy First Minister) in the power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive. It is the fifth-largest party in Dáil Éireann, the ...
Sinn Fein’s spectacular slump in the Republic’s local and European elections erupted into open warfare last night after a veteran candiate quit. In a hugely damaging move, Christy Burke turned his back on the party after 40 years, accusing it of failing to support him during his tilt in the Dublin Central by-election. Mr Burke, Sinn Fein’s longest serving councillor, said he felt isolated by the party and not given the respect and funds he needed to win the late TD Tony Gregory’s seat. And he rubbished the party’s claim that he had deceived it and the voters by ...
taktek - in poll Sinn Féin (UK) The second Sinn Fein councillor to quit the party within a week has declared it had lost the battle for the hearts and minds of the working class. John Dwyer, who was re-elected to New Ross Urban District Council in Wexford on a Sinn Fein ticket, accused the republican leadership of building a party of faces rather than policies. His resignation marks a triple-whammy for Gerry Adams, just a week after veteran Dublin councillor Christy Burke stood down from the ranks and a poor European election performance. Mr Dwyer, a long-time trade union activist, said he left the party because it was no ...
taktek - in poll Sinn Féin (UK) Donegal’s 29 newly-elected councillors will meet later today. Donegal County Council will meet in Lifford at 12noon for their AGM, with the role of the Mayor of Donegal due to be filled. Five new councillors will enter the chamber today, in the form of Independent Seamus O’Domhnaill, Labour’s Frank McBrearty Junior and Martin Farren, Fine Gael’s Martin Hanley and Sinn Fein’s Mick Quinn. It is widely expected that Fianna Fail, Sinn Fein and Labour will form an alliance to take control of the Council.
19/Jun 08:20
source: oceanfm.ie
2009-06-22
taktek - in poll Sinn Féin (UK)
