Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin failed to build required bridges with left parties before last election, McDonald says

Social Democrats TD Sinéad Gibney says parties ‘ruling out coalition with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael would be a good start’ to forming alliance

Ireland’s centrist dads (and mums) continue to be the dominant force in our politics

There’s a lot to celebrate about the state of democracy in Ireland, but given current global challenges, it must be carefully minded

The Irish Times view on Sinn Féin vs the Normans: a cartoonish version of history

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Gerry Adams defamation trial: Jury told to consider ex-Sinn Féin leader’s reputation in Republic of Ireland, not anywhere else

The former Sinn Féin leader claims a BBC Spotlight programme and a related article published in 2016 defamed him

Sinn Féin versus William the Conqueror

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan: A row over a Norman anniversary, waiting lists for disability services and the skorts controversy draws to a close

Sinn Féin’s US fundraising arm raises further €233,000 in donations

Friends of Sinn Féin’s top donor, Lauren Harvey Living Trust, gave $216,500, while fundraising arm sent $27,000 to party in Belfast

Numbers working on children’s hospital project dropped by third since January, politicians hear

Construction contractor BAM says site worker resources higher than expected for this stage of build

EU-UK deal is a gift to unionists. Shame they can’t all see it

Reaction among conservative politicians portrays NI as a victim. It is a short step from there to portraying Britain as a victim of Northern Ireland

Equivalent of cost of national children’s hospital spent on bovine TB eradication

Sinn Féin’s Martin Kenny said an estimated €2.24bn had been spent on schemes to eliminate the disease

Nama’s Brendan McDonagh says he could have added ‘value’ to new housing delivery agency

Brendan McDonagh to discuss wind-down of agency before the TDs and senators

Stormont rules were subverted to cause ‘political embarrassment’ to Peter Robinson, Nama trial hears

Trial of loyalist activist Jamie Bryson and former Sinn Féin MLA Daithí McKay gets under way in Belfast

Oireachtas health committee must hear from HSE on Portiuncula maternity services, says Opposition

‘Questions need to be asked now about what exactly is going on here,’ says Labour health spokesperson as 10 reviews ongoing

Combining forces: Opposition plans to break the big two’s stranglehold on power begin to germinate

With Sinn Féin taking the lead, contact grows between parties of the left, though Labour and the Social Democrats are wary of having their identities eroded

Plan to expand asylum-seeker accommodation as Government nears purchase of Citywest Hotel

Department of Justice drops bitterly resisted plans to house international protection applicants at old Crown Paints site in Coolock

Children’s hip surgery audit report due next week, says Taoiseach

Martin criticised in Dáíl amid delays to publication of review into whether operations were necessary

Hip operations uproar leaves Taoiseach in a bind

Micheál Martin was concerned enough about impending draft report to say ‘the implications are disturbing’

‘Hands off Ireland’s neutrality’: Government warned changes to triple-lock system will be fought

Coalition proposing to remove need for formal UN approval when State seeking to send more than 12 troops overseas

Gerry Adams defamation trial: laughs from the jury, a judge’s intervention and a ‘very fine story’ about a hedgehog

Former Sinn Féin president tells judge the IRA attempt to kill Margaret Thatcher was ‘legitimate’

Never mind the new pope, who’s going to replace Liveline’s spiritual leader, Joe Duffy?

Michael McDowell coy at book launch, Bertie gives state-of-the-world address and Mark Daly feels the heat

BBC had multiple sources corroborating claims about Gerry Adams, defamation trial told

BBC Spotlight programme lacked sufficient editorial veracity to be published, witness called by Adams’s team tells court

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