Mary Lou McDonald: Recent remarks about IRA were not meant as justification

The Sinn Féin leader said she understood the horror and pain experienced by people during the Troubles.
Mary Lou McDonald: Recent remarks about IRA were not meant as justification
Ms McDonald said she "made the simple point that any person faced with that scenario might have become embroiled in it and might have volunteered with the IRA.”

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said that recent remarks she made about the IRA were not meant as a justification.

She said she understood the horror and pain experienced by people during the Troubles.

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