Sinn Fein out of TCD

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From today's Indo -

SINN Fein has been booted out of Trinity College after the campus branch chairperson circulated a hate email containing threats to Margaret Thatcher.

The message urged Sinn Fein members to insult the late husband of the former British Prime Minister, and contained the statement: "We'll get the bitch yet."

The line is seen as a reference to the infamous Brighton bombing, when the IRA attempted to assassinate Mrs Thatcher and the British Cabinet at the Tory Party conference in 1986.

The sender of the email, Grace Vaughey, Sinn Fein Trinity Cumann chairperson, has been disciplined by college authorities, but not Sinn Fein, and she remains a member of the party. Last night, a party spokesperson said Ms Vaughey had apologised to college authorities and the party.

The email encouraged people to send hate mail to a Margaret Thatcher fan site, to coincide with her recent 80th birthday.

It called for recipients to insult Denis Thatcher, who died two years ago.

Sinn Fein has been banned from holding meetings on the Trinity campus for the rest of the year, and has had college funding and access to its office withdrawn.

Yesterday's edition of Trinity News reported that Ms Vaughey had been fined €75 by the college, while Ogra Shinn Fein was not allowed hold events on campus. Sinn Fein's spokesperson said Ms Vaughey forwarded an offending email written by somebody else. The email's author is not being named.

The party was not condemning the incident, but described the email as in "appalling taste" and "extremely juvenile".

"She (Ms Vaughey) should have taken more care," the spokesperson said. "She has apologised. It was a complete error of judgment. It won't happen again."

The email came to light and action was taken by the college after a Sinn Fein member in the college made a complaint.

Trinity Sinn Fein's website features a logo of a coffin draped with the tricolour and with three gunmen standing over it firing into the air. The slogan beneath says 'Remember Our Dead'.

Fionnan Sheahan
Political Correspondent

Crash

and rightly so - if your chair cant act maturely, then they can **** off out of college til january.

LegacyUser

crash_000 wrote:

and rightly so - if your chair cant act maturely, then they can **** off out of college til january.

What he said...

More stupidity that anything else...

fade

you do have to feel sory for the poor girl though, jesus, i probably would have had a look, luckily im the lazy internet type who doesnt forward anything

Ron DMC

Grace Vaughey, Sinn Fein Trinity Cumann chairperson,

So very very wrong, Grace is actually not the chairperson, she's secretary IIRC.
She's a smart girl really, but everyone makes mistakes, granted this one was a pretty big mistake. I think this'll take Sinn Féin down off their high horse after their most successful Freshers' Week yet.

Agent Smith

is that possible?



i got the email, ( i'm a member of i think all trinty's Political Partys, along with 50 others societys, and womens rugby for some reason)

it's done them a lot of damage imo.....

Johnee

Leopards, spots and the like. Good to see their concern for human rights and parity of esteem extends to crassly insulting the dead and celebrating mass murder.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

seems a bit extreme to ban a political party from organising on campus - if 'in bad taste' leads to being banned from college then there won't be much left on campus...

lostexpectation

The email came to light and action was taken by the college after a Sinn Fein member in the college made a complaint.

*meow*

Beastieboy

slightly unrelated but anyway, apart from representing the IRA Sinn fein seem to me to have/do nothing important when it comes to Irish politics. What i mean to say is the Sinn Fein have nothing going for them (to attract voters) other than they are the most overtly nationalist party. All their other policies seem more detrimental to the country than good for it. While i consider myself a moderately nationalist (and would love to see a viable alternative nationalist party, fianna fail don't count) i have never and will never vote for sinn fein because of the bunch of idiots they are.

Scarinae

lostexpectation wrote:

*meow*

Were they giving out food in Freshers week? Cos if so, it was probably someone who joined just for the food and was then shocked by the content of the email

John

Or maybe all the people who joined Sinn Fein weren't all block headed idiots. They were just idiots for joining.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

Beastieboy wrote:

slightly unrelated but anyway, apart from representing the IRA Sinn fein seem to me to have/do nothing important when it comes to Irish politics. What i mean to say is the Sinn Fein have nothing going for them (to attract voters) other than they are the most overtly nationalist party. All their other policies seem more detrimental to the country than good for it. While i consider myself a moderately nationalist (and would love to see a viable alternative nationalist party, fianna fail don't count) i have never and will never vote for sinn fein because of the bunch of idiots they are.

troll - go back to the politics board