{"id":139171,"date":"2025-11-14T09:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T09:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139171\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T09:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T09:12:10","slug":"sinn-fein-activist-held-over-mosque-terror-plot-previously-admitted-selling-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139171\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in activist held over mosque terror plot previously admitted selling cocaine"},"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\">Man arrested was at Sinn F\u00e9in event in Dublin six weeks ago addressed by President Catherine Connolly, but is not a party memberSuspect in far-right extremism probe met Mary Lou McDonald campaigning in general electionCouple were admitted into Leinster House twice this year as guests of Sinn F\u00e9in senator\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sinn F\u00e9in president Mary Lou McDonald. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/07f26d93-5cf6-440a-942e-3db7e0016f27.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 president Mary Lou McDonald. Photo: PA<\/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 activist who is a terror suspect in a far-right plot to attack a mosque previously admitted to selling cocaine.<\/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 party turned down his formal membership application due to his drug possession, the Irish Independent has learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man arrested was at Sinn F\u00e9in event in Dublin six weeks ago addressed by President Catherine Connolly, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3656,15049,3774,42,807,1629,3658,43,978,3415,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-139171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-catherine-connolly","9":"tag-dail-eireann","10":"tag-fionnan-sheahan","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-housing","13":"tag-immigration","14":"tag-mary-lou-mcdonald","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-presidential-election","17":"tag-sinn-fein","18":"tag-top-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topnews","21":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}