[Updated] South Down SF councillor leaves the party..
It’s a well worn pattern that when a Sinn Fein councillor resigns the party whip, no one on either side of whatever has divided them will speak candidly on the matter. Mickey Coogan from Ballynahinch has sat on Down District Council for Sinn Fein since May 2005. And there’s little evidence that the matter relates in anyway to larger strategies. There seems to have been some tension, so the Irish News reports, between himself and another person in the constituency …