Click on the arrows to go through the photos by North West Newspix A senior figure in Republican Sinn Féin has claimed that elements within the Republican movement have “cynically sold out for personal political gain”. Sean Scott was speaking at the Easter Sunday commemoration by Republican Sinn Féin in Stranorlar. Mr Scott’s father, Sean Scott senior, was active in the Pearse Column and took part in the Brookeborough raid in 1957 in Co Fermanagh which claimed the lives of volunteers Sean South and Fergal O’Hanlon. A practicing solicitor in Clonmel and a Vice President of Sinn Féin Poblachtach, Mr Scott, who delivered the main oration on Sunday, was sharply critical of those in Sinn Féin - “reformist elements”, he called them - who have “cynically sold out”. He said: “They have their party to the so-called Good Friday Agreement, or what should be called the Surrender Agreement, because that agreement, that failed arrangement, what it does is it copper fastens the partition of Ireland and it institutionalises sectarianism in the illegal six-county state. “These people have the absolute brass neck and audacity to turn up at Republican graves at Easter and other times for political purposes. The hunger strikers and Republicans who get their lives returned in their graves are what these people are doing. They are administering crown rule in the six-county state. They're sitting on policing boards...They attend royal weddings and funerals as loyal subjects of the crown. “They attend the coronation of the King of England, Charles of Baton, Mountbatten-Windsor, the Colonel-in-Chief of the Parachute Regiment of the British Army that shot 14 innocent people up the road in Derry in January 1972.” Mr Scott said that the Irish government and the Executive in Stormont “have failed the Irish people”. He said that Éire Nua and Saol Nua policies “have stood the test of time and will form the basis of the New Ireland solution.” Mr Scott said that the “cold-blooded” manner of the
Republican Sinn Féin figure accuses rivals of 'selling out' at Easter commemoration
Sean Scott delivered the main oration at the Easter Sunday commemoration by Republican Sinn Féin in Stranorlar and was sharply critical of those in Sinn Féin - 'reformist elements', he called them - who have 'cynically sold out'
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