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    Senior S/F Member Suspended over Child Abuse Allegations

    A senior member of Sinn Fein in Belfast, has been suspended over serious allegations about child abuse 28 years ago in Belfast.
    The alleged victim is the daughter of deceased Republican icon, Martin Meehan.

    The PSNI are investigating the matter and the senior member has been suspended from the Party......

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    Re: Senior S/F Member Suspended over Child Abuse Allegations

    Is this just heresay or do you have any links?

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    Re: Senior S/F Member Suspended over Child Abuse Allegations

    Quote Originally Posted by bobbysands81
    Is this just heresay or do you have any links?
    Printed in today's Sunday Life Newspaper! Page 7......

    As of yet, can't find a link?

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    Re: Senior S/F Member Suspended over Child Abuse Allegations

    Sunday Life? Honestly....
    "The thing that always annoyed me about traditional Irish historiography was the paradox of its Anglocentrism. People are now prepared, I think, to confront the possibility that many Irish problems are, in a sense, indigenous to the Irish situation." Roy Foster (1989).

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    Re: Senior S/F Member Suspended over Child Abuse Allegations

    The SL is a rag, however its not the first time these rumours have surfaced

    http://www.sundaylife.co.uk/news/article3783007.ece

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    Re: Senior S/F Member Suspended over Child Abuse Allegations

    Ahh the Sunday Life. Another piece of gutter journalism directly attacking Sinn Féin.

    The allegations were made by "Sources" ( ) close to Meehan and there is no proof from anything in that article that any "Senior Sinn Féin figure" has been suspended from that party. Even Stephen Breen (anything to Suzanne?) goes on to admit: 'Ms Meehan refused to comment on the details of the allegations when approached by Sunday Life last week.'

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    Re: Senior S/F Member Suspended over Child Abuse Allegations

    Well that settles it.

    All shinners are hearby foreevermore, child molesters.
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    Re: Senior S/F Member Suspended over Child Abuse Allegations

    If a senior member has been suspended then it shouldn't be long before it is common knowledge, surely the party would tell it's members in the area, let's leave it till then rather than rely on rags like the Sunday Life, Breen has been known to write rubbish in the past.

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    Re: Senior S/F Member Suspended over Child Abuse Allegations

    Is it right that the alleged victim should be named ?

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    Re: Senior S/F Member Suspended over Child Abuse Allegations

    I was wondering how it was that she had been named too, but now I've seen the article I can understand because it makes reference only to 'physical' abuse and not sexual.

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