Sinn Féin officials discussed a gun attack with Jonathan Dowdall before he became a councillor, according to Eoin Ó Broin of Sinn Féin. Dowdall, who donated €1,000 to Sinn Féin and has since been convicted of involvement in a gangland killing, raised the issue of an attack on a family member’s home with senior party official Brian Keane during 2014 local elections. Keane was also present at a meeting with Dowdall prior to the murders hanging on the Kinahan-Hutch feud. The party has yet to respond to the revelations.

Sinn Féin has been linked to a gun attack carried out on the home of Jonathan Dowdall’s uncle, with a senior party official allegedly confronting Dowdall about his involvement in the incident before he became a councillor. Eoin Ó Broin, another Sinn Féin official, claims that it was Dowdall who brought up the attack. In November 2017, Dowdall, a former Sinn Féin councillor, was convicted of torturing a man and of being involved in the 2016 murder of David Byrne. During the trial for the murder, tapes were played of conversations between Dowdall and Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch, a member of a rival gang. During the tapes, Dowdall admitted that Sinn Féin had questioned him about the attack on his uncle’s house, located on the Howth Road in Dublin, which took place in 2011.