Sinn Féin’s US arm raises €86,600 from supporters
Biggest donors to party come from construction industry in New York
Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald was the guest speaker at a fundraising dinner in New York in November. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
Sinn Féin’s US fundraising arm raised a further $98,383 (€86,600) from supporters in the six months to the end of October, according to the group’s latest accounts.
Manhattan-based Friends of Sinn Féin Inc collected most of the donations in the six-month period from companies working in the construction industry in New York and New Jersey.