Senator’s resignation piles pressure on Sinn Féin leadership

Party told last April of ‘complete dysfunctionality’ in organisation

A question of leadership: Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams, the party’s Northern leader Michelle O’Neill, and Mary Lou McDonald, Adams’s anointed successor Pic: Barry Cronin
Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh, who announced he was quitting the party last weekRolling News

Sinn Féin was told seven months ago of “complete dysfunctionality” in the party’s Galway West organisation by a senator who quit the party last week.

Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh shocked Sinn Féin last Thursday by announcing his immediate resignation due to “unacceptable behaviour” by a “small number of ruthless, unscrupulous and ambitious individuals”.

He is the first national politician to quit ...