In 1916, Eamon de Valera and Michael Collins were members of the original Sinn Féin.

The Sinn Féin councillor expelled from the party this week has been the subject of two internal inquiries into financial issues in the past 12 months.

The Sinn Féin party will have to resign itself to being unable to secure a city and county double, with mayoral chains, in Cork for the next 12 months.

In trying to further discredit participants who have taken part in the wave of recent protests across the country the government have tried to label them as members of Sinn Féin, and in the process are likening them to fascists.