'It was used as a weapon': Calls for Lorraine Clifford-Lee to apologise to Travellers over comments

Additional reporting by Daniel McConnell

Ministers have called on Fianna Fail election candidate Lorraine Clifford-Lee to apologise directly to Travellers for controversial tweets and claimed the comments were used as a “weapon”. The Dublin-Fingal by-election candidate has gone to ground and not come out and addressed criticism about remarks she posted on social media several years ago.