Sinn Fein

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar

Government's response to Dublin riots is 'very robust', says Taoiseach

People taking part in a march against antisemitism in London on Sunday. The event gave ordinary people the chance to show their sympathy for their Jewish neighbours over the Hamas terror attacks on October 7

Ruth Dudley Edwards: I’ll carry on wearing ‘I Stand With Israel’ badge in public

Morning View

Editorial: Ireland's unfriendly views on Israel are, at last, being noticed

The Irish Army on parade in Carndonagh

Dublin move to end UN veto on deployment of Irish soldiers 'a dose of realism'

Mark Tipper (left), brother of Trooper Simon Tipper who was killed in the 1982 IRA Hyde Park bomb, Simon Utley (middle) survivor of the Hyde Park bomb with Paul Young (right), spokesman for the Northern Ireland Veterans Movement, at the High Court in London, where a judge has begun overseeing a preliminary hearing in a case in which survivors of the 1973 Old Bailey bombing, the 1996 Manchester bombing and the 1996 Docklands bombing have taken legal action against Gerry Adams and the Provisional IRA.

Gerry Adams ‘trying to stop any attempt to establish links to Provisional IRA’

Jim Allister MLA has called Peter Robinson's intervention on DUP - Government talks over the Irish Sea border "folly".

Allister hits out at Robinson's "flawed analysis" on Stormont return

Sinn Fein's Stormont leader Michelle O’Neill took and lost a libel case over a minor insut while SF president Mary Lou McDonald is a serial suer. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Ruth Dudley Edwards: SF try to muzzle their critics in the media and in politics

Letters to editor

Letter: Sinn Fein officially condones one of the worst forms of animal cruelty

14 NOVEMBER 1992: COLERAINE TOWN CENTRE AFTER 500LB IRA VAN BOMB CAUSED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE

'Sinn Fein is now a hair's breadth away from ditching links to the IRA'

Sinn Fein TD Matt Carthy said Leo Varadkar's comments were 'pathetic attempts at deflection' from his party’s record in government

Idea of Sinn Fein justice minister ‘repugnant’, Leo Varadkar says

Morning View

Editorial: Possible hints of much needed help from London for unionists

Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald

'SF shuns the politics of condemnation - but is quick to condemn Israel'

Photo posted online by UNRWA of destruction in Gaza, November 10, 2023

Nigel Dodds criticises motion from Sinn Fein that laments Israeli bombs

Mattie McGrath in the Dail, 14-11-23

Bad-tempered exchange in Irish parliament over Sinn Fein 'posturing' on Israel

Letters to editor

Letter: Assistance is available to victims in form of pension scheme

All Sinn Féin MPs follow an abstentionist policy with regard to Westminster, meaning they do not take their seats in that parliament

Letter: Sinn Fein has a long history of abstentionism
A letter from Michael Palmer:

Jim Allister says the Protocol is Sinn Féin’s means to the end of Irish unity

Protocol ‘means to an end’ for Sinn Fein - TUV

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald holding a gay pride rainbow flag the day after Lyra McKee was killed in Londonderry; Miss McKee, a gay activist and writer, was shot by accident when dissident republicans opened fire on police during rioting in 2019

McDonald says gay rights in Palestine 'is an issue for another day'

Speakers at the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis in Athlone, County Westmeath. A main theme of the conference was the military actions of Israel which has resulted in thousands of Palestinian civilians being killed. Party figures cynically and hypocritically exploited their suffering. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

John Cushnahan: SF have no authority to condemn Israel for killing civilians

Speakers at the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis at the Technological University of Shannon Campus in Athlone, County Westmeath. Picture date: Friday November 10, 2023. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Belfast not Dublin still calls the shots in Sinn Fein says Mairia Cahill

Home Secretary Suella Braverman leaving her home in Bushey, Hertfordshire, today

DUP MP accuses republicans of 'rank hypocrisy' over Braverman policing comments

Morning View

Editorial: O'Neill should have been ordered to pay costs in her libel case

Members of the House of Commons and Lords during the State Opening of Parliament, in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster in London on Tuesday. Photo: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Passing reference to Union shows why Stormont should stay down: Allister

Morning View

Editorial: The US, EU and UK should take note of ongoing Sinn Fein extremism

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has said the position of the Israeli ambassador to Ireland is “now untenable”

Israeli ambassador’s position is ‘now untenable’, says Sinn Fein leader

The aftermath of Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip in Khan Younis, Friday, Now. 3, 2023. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says: "Israel has the right to defend itself. And we will defend that right. But ultimately, our experience in Northern Ireland is that people feel more secure when there is peace” (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

DUP leader Donaldson suggests possible joint UK-Ireland peace bid in Middle East

Morning View

Editorial: The Middle East war is now a new political wedge in Northern Ireland
News Letter editorial on Saturday November 4 2023:

It has been clear for a while that he wants the DUP to return to Stormont, and his speech to his party conference last month was explicit about that. Pic Arthur Allison, Pacemaker

Ben Lowry: Yes, our editorial on Stormont was blunt - but for a reason

The ongoing abstention from Stormont is not only harming prosperity, opportunity and wellbeing but pushing a negative unionism

UUP deputy leader: Unionists are saying a resounding yes to Stormont

Morning View

Editorial: Few unionists will see any victory in a return to Stormont

The US ambassador to the UK Jane Hartley, bottom left on the stairs, and party leaders including Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, top left, descend into the Great Hall at Stormont as part of the US Business Delegation event on Wednesday October 25 2023. The DUP leader could hardly have stayed away. Image taken from Northern Ireland Assembly @niassembly X feed

Ben Lowry: Unionists in no mood to listen to American pressure about Stormont

Welcome for £20m state-of-the-art railway station for Lurgan

Protesters during a pro-Palestine demonstration outside the BBC offices in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Picture date: Saturday October 21, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story ULSTER Israel. Photo credit should read: Peter Morrison/PA Wire

Is SDLP trying to 'out-green' Sinn Fein over Israel?

The flag of Israel, and the logos of the SDLP and Sinn Fein

SDLP takes harder line on Israel than Sinn Fein in council meeting

Sinn Fein's Stormont leader Michelle O'Neill and party colleague Conor Murphy speak to the media after a breakfast with US investors at the Titanic Centre, Belfast. Photo: David Young/PA Wire

Use US trade delegation visit as spur to bring Stormont back – O’Neill

Morning View

Editorial: Belfast's £100k legal for funeral a reminder of how IRA was appeased

Morning View

Editorial: Remembering the victims of the IRA atrocity on the Shankill Road

The aftermath of the Shankill bomb on October 23 1993. We remember the nine people killed, and many others who were injured. Picture: Pacemaker

Doug Beattie: Thirty years after Shankill bomb, SF till eulogising the bombers

A pro-Palestine demonstration took place in Belfast on Saturday

TUV criticise Michelle O'Neill for attending pro-Palestine rally

Parliament Buildings at Stormont, Belfast. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA

Union undermined ‘by Sinn Fein at Stormont’s wheel’ Jim Allister has said

Parliament Buildings at Stormont, Belfast

‘No justification’ in DUP delay in returning to Stormont – Finucane

Sammy Wilson MP at the DUP conference. He said: “They still eulogise terrorists, support terrorists, and even when the most horrific terrorist atrocities are committed” Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

SF's views on Hamas makes it harder to sit down with them, says Sammy Wilson

Letters to editor

Letter: Liquidating Hamas while exalting Sinn Fein to the top of government

DUP MLA Emma Little-Pengelly speaking during the DUP's annual conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Belfast. The MLA accused the Irish Government of “breathtaking arrogance” for what she said was a failure to investigate claims of Garda collusion.

New NI Legacy Act an affront to justice, Little-Pengelly tells DUP conference

Carla Lockhart MP speaking the DUP's annual conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Belfast. Picture date: Saturday October 14, 2023. PA Photo. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

DUP conference hears plea for unionist unity from Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart

A pro-Palestinian event was held in Belfast city centre at the weekend. The demonstration took place just hours after the Palestinian terror group Hamas launched an unprecedented assault into Israel, killing hundreds of people

Why prosecutions for some hate speech and tolerance for 'smash the Zionists'?

Dancers at Nova music festival, above left, at dawn in Israel on October 7 2023, at around 645am, just as gliders with Hamas terrorists were gliding in, barely visible behind as dots in the sky. The man on the right was captured on a car dashboard hunting for more victims to kill hours later, around 930am. SF could have said it had sympathy for the circumstances that gave rise to Hamas but contempt for what it did

Ben Lowry: SF ambivalence about Hamas doesn't make return of Stomont easier

Widespread tributes have been paid to US philanthropist Chuck Feeney, who has been lauded by nationalists but who appeared to cause some uncertainty among unionists.

Tributes to US philanthropist whose cash challenged Brexit

Casement Park has been derelict for a number of years. Photo: Pacemaker

‘Discussions must start immediately on funding Casement Park for Euro 2028’

Máiria Cahill has been an outspoken critic of Sinn Fein for years. She has just released her new book Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Cahill’s story tells how courage can surmount obstacles

Letters to editor

Letter: SF attitude towards Hamas attacks raises questions for unionist leaders

A pro-Palestinian event was held in Belfast city centre at the weekend. The demonstration took place just hours after the Palestinian terror group Hamas launched an unprecedented assault into Israel, killing hundreds of people

Letter: How can anyone support Hamas attacks?

Morning View

Editorial: The people of NI will be sending love and support to Israel

People take part in a solidarity demonstration with Israel on Pariser Platz at the Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (Fabian Sommer/dpa/via AP)

Sinn Fein must condemn Hamas attack, says Ian Paisley

Pacemaker Press 08-10-2023: A Palestinian rally was held in at City Hall on sunday in Belfast.
Picture By:Pacemaker Press.

DUP's Gordon Lyons reports three pro-Palestine social media posts