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The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster, is writing to the president of the Dail in relation to an incendiary tweet sent by a TD from Sinn Féin.
Sinn Féin TD for Laois / Offaly Brian Stanley sent out a tweet on Saturday celebrating two historic IRA attacks on the British Army.
The tweet has since been deleted, but DUP leader Ms Foster called it “embarrassing.”
Stanley, who is also the chairman of Dail’s Public Accounts Committee, tweeted about the centenary of Kilmichael’s ambush in 1920.
He wrote to his 3,700 followers: “Kilmicheal (sic) (1920) and Narrow Water (1979) the 2 IRA operations that taught the electives of the () British Army and the establishment the cost of occupying Ireland. Too bad they all learned so slowly. “
In a statement Sunday, Stanley said, “I apologize for the content of an inappropriate and insensitive tweet I sent yesterday.”
The Kilmichael ambush was an attack carried out by the IRA during the War of Independence in which 17 members of the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Police were killed.
The Narrow Water ambush took place during the riots and saw 18 British soldiers killed by the IRA near Warrenpoint, in 1979.
The attack took place on the same day that the Provisionals blew up a fishing boat off the coast of Mullaghmore in Co Sligo, which killed Lord Louis Mountbatten, a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth who served in two world wars.
On Sunday, Ms Foster angrily responded to the tweet and signaled her intention to raise it with the Irish Parliament.
She tweeted: “I will write to Ceann Comhairle del Dáil about this embarrassing tweet.
“Although eliminated, it is outrageous that someone with such distorted views can occupy a high-level position in the Dáil. SF talks about respect and equality, but there are not many signs of respect for the victims ”.
Stanley’s tweet received more than 500 likes on the platform and was shared nearly 400 times.
A Sinn Féin spokesperson said: “We note that Brian Stanley has deleted a tweet that was inappropriate and insensitive, and that he has apologized.
“We all have a responsibility in this Centennial Decade to remember and commemorate the past in a respectful way.”
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