{"id":184938,"date":"2025-11-17T08:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/184938\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T08:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:02:09","slug":"sinn-fein-politician-knew-about-criminal-past-of-party-activist-now-suspected-of-far-right-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/184938\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in politician knew about criminal past of party activist now suspected of far-right extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Terror-cell suspect even met party leader Mary Lou McDonald while campaigning for party in 2024 general electionSenator also aware of previous drug arrest: \u2018I was assured that he had turned his life around.\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sinn F\u00e9in senator Maria McCormack said the man carried out routine work\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MAria McCormack.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sinn F\u00e9in senator Maria McCormack said the man carried out routine work<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Sinn F\u00e9in senator was aware of the criminal convictions of a supporter who is now a terror suspect in a far-right plot to attack a mosque.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The terrorism cell suspect has admitted dealing cocaine and has several non-drug-related convictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terror-cell suspect even met party leader Mary Lou McDonald while campaigning for party in 2024 general electionSenator also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,1921,18,13,14,18613,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,16594,5,59,47,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-184938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-catherine-connolly","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-fionnan-sheahan","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-mary-lou-mcdonald","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-presidential-election","25":"tag-sinn-fein","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115563996568752170","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}