A former Sinn Féin MP who quit after posing with a Kingsmill-branded loaf on his head on the anniversary of the Kingsmill massacre will not be prosecuted.

The furore over Barry McElduff's Kingsmill loaf tweet will not affect Sinn Féin's vote in the West Tyrone by-election, the party vice president has predicted.

Police have interviewed former Sinn Féin MP Barry McElduff who quit after posing with a Kingsmill-branded loaf on his head on the anniversary of the Kingsmill massacre.

Barry McElduff has been appointed as Steward and Bailiff of the Three Hundreds of Chiltern under Westminster’s arcane procedures for resigning MPs.

Tanáiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said he hopes the resignation of Barry McElduff will help create space to restore talks in the North.

The announcement yesterday that Sinn Féin MP Barry McElduff had resigned, 10 days after he posted a dreadful, bigoted video on Twitter on the anniversary of the Kingsmill massacre, is as belated as his resignation statement is implausible.

The sole survivor of the Kingsmill massacre said he has been "left hanging by a thread" as a result of the controversy surrounding Barry McElduff.

Sinn Féin have done it again, in adding insult to injury. They are always embroiled in controversy and scandal.

A Government minister has described as "appalling" the behaviour of a Sinn Féin MP who offended families of those killed in the Kingsmill massacre.

Sinn Féin MP Barry McElduff has arrived for a meeting with the party leadership to explain a video of him with a Kingsmill-branded loaf on his head on the anniversary of the Kingsmill massacre.