Sinn Fein Stormont minister Conor Murphy has secured a seat in the Seanad as the marathon counting process for the Irish ...

Sinn Fein candidate Conor Murphy inside the Seanad elections count centre at Leinster House in Dublin Sinn Fein Stormont minister Conor Murphy has secured a seat in the Seanad as the marathon ...

Sinn Féin’s Conor Murphy warned the Irish Government not to put its head in the sand about Irish reunification as his ...

1905 saw the formation of Sinn Fein (which is Gaelic for 'we ourselves'). At the same time, the revolutionary Irish Republican Brotherhood had moved the fight to England for the first time, carrying ...

Former First Minister Arlene Foster has proposed legislation meaning people in authority could be prosecuted for glorifying terrorism – and slammed republicans’ “strategy to lionise” the IRA and put ...

It was one of the so-called “dissident” republican factions which broke away from the mainstream IRA after its political wing, Sinn Féin, turned toward peaceful politics. The Real IRA’s assault on ...

Ted Howell, who has died aged 77, was the most self-effacing, yet one of the most influential IRA and Sinn Féin figures ... him as the “most important republican figure in the peace process ...

We were never in doubt about his importance and influence within the republican movement. “He was soft-spoken but we noticed early on that, whenever Ted Howell intervened, the rest of the Sinn ...

In Northern Ireland, the party had originally organised under the name ‘Republican Clubs’ to avoid a ban on Sinn Féin candidates introduced in 1964 under the NI Emergency Powers Act.

The armed campaign of the Irish Republican Army began to incorporate the political strategy of Sinn Féin in the 1980s. The INLA formed in 1974 as a result of a split in the 'Official' IRA.