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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
David Kent

Taoiseach blasts Sinn Féin as Michelle O'Neill comments on IRA violence labelled 'sickening'

The Taoiseach has hit out at Sinn Féin - after the party's leader in Northern Ireland, Michelle O'Neill said that she thought there was "no alternative" to IRA violence during the Troubles.

Micheál Martin took to social media to fire a shot at the Opposition party, invoking the name of the late John Hume in doing so.

When asked about IRA violence on the BBC Red Lines podcast, Ms O'Neill replied: "I think at the time there was no alternative.

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