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In view of tonight’s news that Fianna Fail have registered as a political party in Northern Ireland, it’s worth reading this Slugger O’Toole post from a few days ago noting the lax regime covering donations to political parties in NI relative to the rest of the UK. One wonders if the NI registration is really a way for handling those sterling donations that have proven so awkward in other contexts.
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It could be but our rules were tightened up recently to cope with this anomoly. Thanks to worries about Sinn Fein using their NI-USA fundraising operation to channel monies to their Dublin setup we tightened rules about donations from overseas.
However I am sure that, as with anything, there are ways and means that have been found around this.