The Dublin-based Sinn Féin senator Máire Devine retweeted the tweet. She also said the Senator had made a catastrophic error of judgement and criticised her for continuing the exchange on Twitter rather than immediately apologising. The IRA denied the murder for many years but finally admitted its members had carried out the killing. Devine is not the first Sinn Féin representative to get into trouble over their use of Twitter. More widely, politicians such as Fianna Fáil’s Darragh O’Brien and Fine Gael’s Neale Richmond have claimed a tolerance within Sinn Féin for social media posts making light of Troubles atrocities.

Source: The Irish Times March 20, 2018 00:56 UTC