Sinn Féin is the largest Irish republican political party and was closely associated with the Provisional IRA, with the Irish Government alleging that senior members of Sinn Féin have held posts on the IRA Army Council. However, the SF leadership has denied these claims.
The US Government has made similar allegations.
A republican document of the early 1980s stated: "Both Sinn Féin and the IRA play different but converging roles in the war of national liberation. The Irish Republican Army wages an armed campaign... Sinn Féin maintains the propaganda war and is the public and political voice of the movement".
The British Government stated in 2005 that "we had always said all the way through we believed that Sinn Féin and the IRA were inextricably linked and that had obvious implications at leadership level".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in
"You seem to have double standards too, ff and fg were founded from the ira , ie, parties that used violence to achieve their goals, how is that different from your view of sinn fein?"
Nearly every organisation in the state has it origins with the IRA. And to keep harping on about the civil war to justify present SF/IRA murderers that are running for election at the moment is just crass in the extreme.
"Want something more current? what about the labour parties links to the official ira?"
Last time I checked the OIRA didn't engage in sectarian violence and wanted to unite all Irish men and women against British rule & not be exclusive to one tradition.
"As for kevin mcguigan, if I remember correctly, the chief constable said that while he was shot by members of the ira, it was not sanctioned by the army council.
And the provos are now going rouge! Do you not think that statement was politically motivated as SF/IRA are still how many years later and how many murderers walking free are still threatening the peace process, or did you forget the political fallout.