Friends of Sinn Féin

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The Friends of Sinn Féin or Cairde Sinn Féin is the name of five different Irish republican political non profit organisations located in Scotland, England, Canada, the United States and Australia. Sinn Féin USA, Located in New York City being the largest and most successful.

Each FOSF is associated with the political party Sinn Féin, and works with the Irish Scots, Irish English, Irish Canadian, Irish American and Irish Australian communities to foster good relations between the Sinn Féin party and the governments of those countries. The FOSF, USA organisation is one of the chief fund-raising sources for Sinn Féin. In 2008 it was reported that FOSF USA remains one of the major contributors and a "key source of funds" for the party.[1]

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