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The party won seven seats in the city in 2019, and 11 across the Derry and Strabane council

Sinn Féin has continuously distanced itself from its former councillor, arguing that if they knew Dowdall’s links to crime, he would "never have been a member of Sinn Féin"

Celebrations are being planned to mark 25 years of the Good Friday Agreement but, with many romanticising the Troubles, the past can seem very present

25 years on from the Good Friday agreement, the Iron Lady’s implacability and its unintended consequences are a lesson in humility, says Guardian Ireland correspondent Rory Carroll

Dismantling of the barriers between Catholic and Protestant areas reflects undeniable progress in the 25 years since the Good Friday agreement, but the city remains deeply divided

Held up as a model for peace, the historic agreement ended decades of violence in Northern Ireland over 58 tense hours

Sinn Féin's housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin was criticised in recent days over a picture he tweeting showing modern day gardaí at a famine era eviction.

Between 1820 and 1920, four million people emigrated from Ireland to the US. Many were fleeing hunger and destitution and so brought with them an “exile” nationalism – a conviction that they were forced to leave by British misgovernment and exploitation of Ireland. Little wonder, then, that the Irish diaspora…

In February 1990, in the midst of the Troubles, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness publicly invited the British government to reopen a back-channel used during previous phases of contact with the IRA in the 1970s and during the 1981 hunger strike.