Sinn Féin
Irish Republican Party sharing power with the DUP at Stormont's executive.
Sinn Féin, half of Stormont's mandatory power-sharing Coalition, says it remains committed after its representative Conor Murphy warned on 31 July 2026 that the executive was fragile, a charge the DUP rejected the same day.
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Sinn Féin is an Irish Republican Party and one half of Stormont's mandatory power-sharing executive, alongside the Democratic Unionist Party. On 31 July 2026 its representative Conor Murphy said the party itself remains 'wedded to power-sharing', attributing any risk to the DUP's lack of political will rather than to Sinn Féin's own conduct.
DUP leader Gavin Robinson disputed that framing on the same day, saying his party remains committed to the institutions. Northern Ireland's Finance Minister, John O'Dowd, said on 11 August that Sinn Féin has 'no intent, plan or otherwise' to leave the executive, while accepting the DUP has become harder to work with.
That leaves the executive's stability resting publicly on Sinn Féin's own assurance, with the underlying dispute over Stormont's funding still unresolved.