Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley 'genuinely sorry' for 'disrespectful' tweet

Mr Stanley said that he had "fallen short of the standards that I set for myself, and the standards expected from the Dail, and for that, I’m genuinely sorry". File Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley has told the Public Accounts Committee that he is “genuinely sorry” for sending a tweet appearing to laud two separate IRA operations which led to the deaths of nearly 40 British soldiers.

Addressing the committee at its weekly correspondence meeting, Mr Stanley, the committee’s chair, said that in doing so he had fallen short of “the standards that we expect of each other, but the standard that I expect of myself as a member of the Dáil, and for that I’m genuinely sorry”.