Latest: Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley has said she is "profoundly sorry" for "deeply insensitive" comments she made yesterday suggesting that deaths caused by soldiers and police during the Troubles were not crimes. I am profoundly sorry for the offence and hurt that my words have causedIn her apology, Ms Bradley said her language was “wrong” and “deeply insensitive” to many of those who lost loved ones. PAUpdate: Karen Bradley's killings comments 'misguided and ill-judged'The comments of Northern Secretary Karen Bradley in the House of Commons yesterday have been described as “misguided and ill-judged” by the sister of an IRA victim of the Troubles. Ann Travers told RTE radio’s Today with Sean O’Rourke show that Ms Bradley’s comments had done nothing to help the healing. It's not up for me to tell Karen Bradley to resign, if she was a woman of substance and a woman of dignity she would know what she should do herself.

Source: Irish Examiner March 07, 2019 08:55 UTC