Former Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall was sentenced to four years in prison last year for facilitating the murder of David Byrne in Dublin’s Regency Hotel in February 2016 louiseburne_
Sinn Féin’s David Cullinane has denied that the party’s performance in recent opinion polls has tumbled due to suggestions it is linked to organised crime.
In tapes heard during the trial, Dowdall could be heard saying that Sinn Féin and leader Mary Lou McDonald had “used” the Hutch family for money and votes. Ms McDonald has denied these charges. When asked if he believed that support had dropped over suggested links to crime, Mr Cullinane denied that there were any such links.“Sinn Féin is not just a democratic party, but the people who vote for us are decent people. The people who are party members are decent people.
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