Sinn Fein give footy hooligan the boot

national | miscellaneous | other press Monday October 15, 2007 23:26 by Charlie Bird

Thug banged up for smashing a bar is expelled froeinm SinnF

Francis O'Reilly was said to be "summarily dismissed"
Sinn Fein has dismissed a party member who was one of four football hooligans jailed last week for an attack on a pub in Londonderry.

Francis O'Reilly, 29, is serving three months in prison for causing damage to the Tavern Bar on the edge of the loyalist Fountain estate last Monday.

The party says he was "summarily dismissed" after his involvement in the attack became known.

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