{"id":144189,"date":"2025-11-17T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144189\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T08:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:00:12","slug":"sinn-fein-politician-knew-about-criminal-past-of-party-activist-now-suspected-of-far-right-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/144189\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in politician knew about criminal past of party activist now suspected of far-right extremism"},"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\">Terror-cell suspect even met party leader Mary Lou McDonald while campaigning for party in 2024 general electionSenator also aware of previous drug arrest: \u2018I was assured that he had turned his life around.\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sinn F\u00e9in senator Maria McCormack said the man carried out routine work\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MAria McCormack.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 senator Maria McCormack said the man carried out routine work<\/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 senator was aware of the criminal convictions of a supporter who is now a terror suspect in a far-right plot to attack a mosque.<\/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 terrorism cell suspect has admitted dealing cocaine and has several non-drug-related convictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terror-cell suspect even met party leader Mary Lou McDonald while campaigning for party in 2024 general electionSenator also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3656,3774,61,60,3658,43,978,3415],"class_list":["post-144189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-catherine-connolly","tag-fionnan-sheahan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mary-lou-mcdonald","tag-news","tag-presidential-election","tag-sinn-fein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144189","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=144189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}