McFeely in newspaper articles in 2022 and 2023. Politics McFeely identifies as a "Socialist Republican". Since 1986, McFeely has held views critical of Sinn Féin. In 2004, McFeely alongside other business leaders attended a meeting with Mary Lou McDonald. McFeely described the event as "There was a 'come-for-wine-and-canapes-and-meet-Mary-Lou thing' for business people at a Smithfield hotel. I went along. It was unrecognisable from anything I fought for. I looked around the room. It was many things, but it wasn't republican". In a 2009 interview McFeely stated that "[In the 1980s] I argued with other prisoners who were pleased at Sinn Féin taking votes off the SDLP. I told them Sinn Féin, not the SDLP, would destroy the IRA, and I was right. The leadership were intent on a deal far short of a British withdrawal and a united Ireland. It was immoral to continue armed struggle in such circumstances.". In the same 2009 interview McFeely was described as hating Fianna Fáil, with his feelings about Bertie Ahern being called "unprintable" by the interviewing journalist. McFeely is a reader of the works of Vladimir Lenin and keeps large collections of Lenin's books in his home. In October 2011 Enda Kenny, during a session of the Dáil discussing Priory Hall, accused Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams of being an "acquaintance" of McFeely's, something Adams immediately denied and stated that Kenny was engaging in defamation by making such a claim. References 1949 births Irish communists Irish hunger strikers Irish people convicted of tax crimes Irish republicans Living people People from County Londonderry Provisional Irish Republican Army members Real estate and property developers