Patricia Ryan TD says she quit SF over party asking her to remove Facebook post about encampment [Video]

A FORMER SINN Féin TD in Kildare South has said that her shock resignation was in response to the party “undermining” her.

Patricia Ryan, who left the party earlier this week, said Sinn Féin asked her to take down a Facebook post in which she said she’d written to the defence minister Micheál Martin about an encampment on the Curragh.

She also claimed that party members sought to “vet” questions she was going to ask leader Mary Lou McDonald at a meeting.

Ryan had been working with Sinn Féin for 15 years, having been one of the people who set up the Grey Abbey Cumann in Kildare.

She told Kildare Today on KFM that ultimately she felt pushed out by national leadership because they “don’t listen”.

The Facebook post in question was labelled “dog whistling” by Sinn Féin local election candidate and Irish Traveller James Stokes who texted in to the programme. 

Ryan said the post …