Republican Sinn Féin

Republican Sinn Féin Sinn Féin Poblachtach

President	Des Dalton
Acting Vice President	Daire McKenna
Acting Vice President	Tomás Ó Curraoin
Founded	1986 (1986)
Headquarters	Teach Dáithí Ó Conaill, 223 Parnell Street, Dublin 1, Ireland
Newspaper	Saoirse Irish Freedom
Women's wing	Cumann na mBan
Ideology	Irish republicanism Éire Nua Democratic socialism Euroscepticism Abstentionism Secularism
Political position	Left-wing
International affiliation	RSF International
Colours	Green, Gold
Local government in the Republic of Ireland	1 / 949
Local government in Northern Ireland	0 / 462
Website
www.rsf.ie www.rsf-international.org
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Republican Sinn Féin or RSF (Irish: Sinn Féin Poblachtach) is an Irish republican political party in Ireland. RSF claim to be heirs of the Sinn Féin party founded in 1905 and took its present form in 1986 following a split in Sinn Féin. RSF members take seats when elected to local Irish councils but do not recognise the validity of the partition of Ireland and subsequently the legitimacy of the Northern Ireland (Stormont) or Republic of Ireland (Leinster House) parliaments, so does not register itself with them.

The party emerged around the supporters of Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and Dáithí Ó Conaill, who as Irish republican legitimists, rejected the reformism of Gerry Adams and other members of Sinn Féin who supported abandoning the policy of abstentionism. They support the Éire Nua policy which allows for devolution of power to provincial governments. RSF holds that the Irish Republic continues to exist and that the Continuity Irish Republican Army Council is its de jure government.

The organisation views itself as representing "true" or "traditional" Irish republicanism, while in the mainstream media the organisation is portrayed as a political expression of "dissident republicanism". Republican Sinn Féin rejects the Good Friday Agreement and the Anglo-Irish Treaty; as part of this they assert that Irish republicans have the right to use militant means to "defend the Irish Republic" (see physical force Irish republicanism) and considers the Continuity Irish Republican Army (IRA) to be the legitimate army of the Irish Republic.