Probe into Sinn Féin crime ‘link’ urged

THE Criminal Assets Bureau should be asked to investigate claims linking Sinn Féin to organised crime, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny said yesterday.

In a detailed response to his party's social affairs spokesman Michael Ring, who earlier this week said Fine Gael should not rule out a coalition arrangement with Sinn Féin in the future, he said he would have "no truck with Sinn Féin as long as they have a private army."

He said that Justice Minister Michael McDowell's remarks that senior figures in Sinn Féin were engaging in organised crime to fund the republican movement amounted to serious allegations that should be investigated by the CAB.