Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald should give the €1,000 donation she received from Jonathan Dowdall to the Criminal Assets Bureau, a Dublin TD has said.
Former Sinn Fein councillor Dowdall was recently sentenced to four years in prison for facilitating the murder of David Byrne in the Regency Hotel in 2016. He has since turned state witness in the Regency murder trial.
Dowdall was also convicted of interrogating, threatening, and waterboarding a man in January 2015. The Dublin Central TD previously said she was "profoundly shocked" when she found out about the former councillor's gangland crime association.
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Dowdall donated €1,000 to Deputy McDonald in 2011. And Fine Gael TD Jennifer Carroll MacNeill called on the Sinn Fein leader to hand the money to the Criminal Assess Bureau.
She said: "Dowdall is now known to be a gangland criminal and he gave money to Mary Lou McDonald in Dublin Central which she says was probably used for her general election expenses in 2011.
“And she has done nothing about it. Not given it away, not relinquished it to the Criminal Assets Bureau, not made reparation to a charity supporting victims of crime. Nothing."
She questioned: “Is she afraid of setting a precedent?
“She’s more than happy to ensure her frontbench TDs apologise for the potential hurt feelings of a respected civil servant. But she’ll do nothing about this, rather she insults every victim of crime in the country by doing nothing."
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