Joe O'Connell (Irish republican) security wing of Portlaoise Prison, Ireland, in early 1998. They were presented by Gerry Adams to the 1998 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis as 'our Nelson Mandelas', and were released together with Brendan Dowd and Liam Quinn in 1999 as part of the Belfast Agreement. Joe O'Connell (Irish republican) Martin Joseph O'Connell (born 1951), better known as Joe, is an Irish republican and a former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). He is most noted for having been a member of the Balcombe Street gang. O'Connell was born in Kilkee, in rural County Clare, 'a stronghold of Gaelic-speaking inhabitants
Mícheál Mac Donncha Mícheál Mac Donncha Mícheál Mac Donncha (born Michael McConkey) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician, who served as the Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2017 to 2018. He has served as a Dublin City Councillor for Beaumont-Donaghmede area since May 2014. He was co-opted onto Dublin City Council in 2011, to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Killian Forde. He was elected in 2014 for the Beaumont-Donaghmede local electoral area. He contested the General Election in 2016 as a Sinn Féin candidate in Dublin Bay North, one of two party candidates, his running mate Denise Mitchell being elected.