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Sir, – Eoghan MacCormaic has challenged (Letters, December 13th) my use of the prefix “original” to describe the Sinn Féin party founded by Edward Martyn, Arthur Griffith and others in ...
Sinn Fein stole the show in Ireland’s general election over the weekend. The votes are still being counted but this left-wing nationalist party has pulled off a major political upset, breaking a ...
With about 400 of 462 local government seats counted Saturday, Sinn Fein, which seeks unification of Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland, took 128 seats and made breakthroughs in some areas.
Sinn Féin, the former political arm of the IRA, is hoping Ireland's 2024 election will bring it to power for the first time ever. Latest U.S.
Sinn Fein VP Michelle O'Neill became first minister in the government that under the terms of the 1998 Good Friday peace accord shares power between Northern Ireland's two main communities.
Meaning “We Ourselves” in Irish Gaelic, Sinn Féin was founded in 1905 by the anti-Semitic politician Arthur Griffith, who once wrote that “the Three Evil Influences of the century were the ...
Because Sinn Fein only fielded 42 candidates for the 160 seats in the Dáil, they won't have enough members seated to form a government on their own.
Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill, left, and party leader Mary Lou McDonald speak to the media at the Medow Bank election count centre on Saturday, May, 7, 2022, in Magherafelt , Northern Ireland.
A chara, – Ray Burke’s otherwise informative piece on Edward Martyn (Irishman’s Diary, December 12th) recalls that “He was a co-founder of the original Sinn Féin”.