Sinn Féin senator and two party officials resign following grants controversy

Sinn Féin senator Elisha McCallion and two party officials have resigned from their positions after failing to immediately return £30,000 of grants which were erroneously paid to three Sinn Féin offices in the North.

“I did not apply for nor solicit this money, nor did I receive any correspondence from the department in relation to it. The party had faced strong criticism this week over how it dealt with the erroneous payments and why it took months to repay the money. The grants were paid to Elisha McCallion’s former constituency office in Derry and to the office of West Tyrone Assembly member Maolíosa McHugh, as well as to a party office in Lurgan, CoMs McDonald said Sinn Féin has also “accepted the resignation of the party official in West Tyrone who had responsibility for the administration of the account and failed to promptly return the grant money despite being requested to do so by Maolíosa McHugh MLA.

As very much an anti-Sinn Fein supporter given by in large their non-sensical, shit stirring policies, I have to say that MaryLouMcDonald and the party have dealt with this issue correctly and swiftly and drew a line under the issue. The 3 had to go and are gone. End of

Regrettable double jeopardy in that it will leave the fourth green field under-represented (provincially and genderly!) in the Seanad of the other three green fields. Hopefully a way can be found to negate it?

Fairy decisive actions MaryLouMcDonald questions remain

€30 grand is chicken feed to Sinn Fein! The Northern bank cash must be all spent at this stage, or maybe Covid has stopped all the $500 a plate fundraisers in the States.

Scum politicians and scum media

They should've just robbed it like the Northern Bank money.

Well at least they had the decency to resign, unlike others.

Lol, Mé Féin........... Stay classy Shinn Féin

Queue the father ted memes

They’re at it again.

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