Press officers provided references for Michael McMonagle who will be sentenced in November
Michael McMonagle, a former press officer for Sinn Féin at the Northern Ireland Assembly, was dismissed from his job with the party after he was arrested in August 2021press officers have resigned after they provided references for a former colleague who was subsequently convicted of child sex offences.
The charity told the Sunday World it did not become aware of McMonagle’s arrest and the charges he faced until an article in the newspaper in July 2023, when he was “immediately suspended and is no longer employed by the charity”. “The references were not provided by, or on behalf of Sinn Féin. Permission was not sought, nor would it have been given from the party for the provision of these references or their content.
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