Tóibín points finger at IRA over Kingsmill massacre

Sinn Féin TD Peadar Tóibín has said it is his understanding that the IRA was responsible for the Kingsmill massacre in which 10 Protestant men were shot dead.

The remarks come after a week of anger and distress for relatives of the victims after Sinn Féin MP Barry McElduff uploaded a video online of him balancing a loaf of Kingsmill bread on his head, on the eve of the anniversary of the massacre.

Speaking to Sean O’Rourke on RTÉ, Mr Tóibín said the shooting dead of the men in Armagh 42 years ago was “shocking, despicable, shameful, morally wrong”.