McDowell ‘must put up or shut up on SF claims’

SINN FÉIN yesterday bluntly told Minister for Justice Michael McDowell that he should back up, or back down from, his allegations that republicans are involved in criminal activity.

McDowell ‘must put up or shut up on SF claims’

Over the course of the weekend Mr McDowell made fresh claims of IRA involvement in crime and went on to compare Sinn Féin to the Nazis.

He returned to the theme yesterday morning when he spoke of republican involvement in unspecified smuggling activity at Dublin Port and saying that senior members of Sinn Féin were on the IRA Army Council.

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