Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley to apologise for 'insensitive' tweet

Sinn Féin TD and Public Accounts Committee chair Brian Stanley is to apologise unreservedly for sending a tweet about the murder of British soldiers amid calls for him to resign. Picture: Gareth Chaney Collins

Sinn Féin TD and Public Accounts Committee chair Brian Stanley is to apologise unreservedly for sending a tweet about the murder of British soldiers amid calls for him to resign.

The PAC is to meet at 4.30pm and according to Sinn Féin sources, Mr Stanley will offer a full apology for his now-deleted tweet which he accepts was “inappropriate and insensitive".