Sinn Féin MPs lose Commons funding

SINN FÉIN’S Westminster MPs were yesterday stripped of around €640,000 in House of Commons allowances in the wake of the Northern bank robbery.

However, a cross-party bid to permanently kick the party’s four members out of their Westminster offices and bar them from using parliamentary facilities as well was rejected.

MPs agreed without a vote to a year-long suspension of the taxpayer-funded benefits, such as staff salaries and travel costs.