sentences:  He was the National Organiser of Ógra Shinn Féin between 1995 and 1997.He was Sinn Féin's Director of European Affairs co-ordinating his party's team in the European Parliament in Brussels, from 2004 to 2007.He is a former member of Sinn Féin's governing body and a regular columnist with the republican newspaper "An Phoblacht".