Sinn Féin raises €468,000 from US-based donors over a year

SINN Fein’s impressive fundraising in the US continues, the party raising more than $600,000 (€454,000) there in the latest 12-month period recorded.

Fundraising arms of foreign political parties are obliged to register with the US Department of Justice and provide income details every six months.

The latest data available is for the six months ending October 31 last, and shows Friends of Sinn Féin raised $195,275 in the period in question. In the preceding six-month period, running to April 30, 2006, the organisation raised $422,757.