Councillor Louise Minihan, who resigned from Sinn Féin today (July 17th), has confirmed that she will continue to represent the people of Ballyfermot, Drimnagh, Bluebell, Chapelizod & Inchicore as a socialist republican councillor within Dublin City Council. Louise is a former member of the Sinn Féin Ard Chomhairle and a founding member of Sinn Féin’s James Connolly Cumann in Ballyfermot, which was established in 1999.
Cllr Louise Minihan resigns from Sinn Féin - Indymedia Ireland
Somehow I suspect that Joe Higgins won't be getting his 22,000 odd transfers next time from SF so...
Will the last one to leave the party turn off the music........
Was any reason given ??
Sorry just saw this
joined Sinn Féin in 1998, when I was sixteen years of age. At that time I believed that party to be committed to its stated objectives of ending British rule in Ireland and the establishment of an Irish Democratic Socialist Republic. It is clear to me today that this is no longer the case.
Sinn Féin has, over the course of the last twelve years, moved steadily away from the core values of Irish socialist republicanism and is no longer willing, or able, to challenge the British occupation of the Six Counties or the rotten capitalist system which is causing so much hardship to working families across Ireland today.
Sinn Féin is taking the wrong position on a whole range of national, social and economic issues, resulting in that party becoming largely irrelevant to working people.
For years I voiced my disquiet within Sinn Féin about the direction that party was headed, in the vain hope that radical politics might triumph over reformism. Like thousands of other republicans before me, I have come to the conclusion that the battle for the heart of Sinn Féin is lost. While wishing those many genuine activists who remain within Sinn Féin well in the future, I believe that many of them will sooner or later come to the same conclusion that I now have.
Thats a fair few since the last GE me thinks...anyone got a number of how many??
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
Jim Carrey.
Oh Dear - will she now be given 'The Treatment' too like poor ol Christy?Originally Posted by JollyRedGiant
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The way things are going SF mightn't have 22,000 votes to transfer.
Clearly SF are suffering from the shift to the right by the leadership of the party. There are many decent working class activists and socialists in SF - it is clearly getting more and more difficult for them to back what is getting more and more like FF lite.
Seems they are selective in their treatment, you leave in ulster you get a pat on the back and a thanks nothing said about having to give up your seat. Down south your told you should give up your seat in belongs to SF and you get told you were a non entity anyway.
“It would be hypocritical of me to hand over my seat to a party I no longer support or believe in. I know from speaking to people in my constituency that many of them voted for me on the basis of the politics I promote and my track record of community activism and not because I stood under a Sinn Féin banner."
Seems she's expecting the SF backlash already.
Where's Factual?..when you need the party response?
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
Jim Carrey.
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