Sinn Féin suspend ex-fighter over rape remarks

Sinn Féin has officially suspended Tallaght South councillor Paddy Holohan from the party after further excerpts from his infamous podcast showed him claiming that “loads” of young women are committing acts of sexual extortion.

Party leader Mary Lou McDonald, at a campaign stop in Bray, Co Wicklow, declared the comments to be “beyond offensive” and said that she “actually found them upsetting”.