Sinn Féin's online guidelines warn members on avoiding 'trolls'

Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, apologising for posting a controversial tweet about the IRA murder of 18 British soldiers during the Troubles. Picture: Oireachtas TV/PA Wire

Sinn Féin's social media guidelines warn members against "naivety" and how to avoid "trolls", it has emerged.

The party has come under intense scrutiny in the last few weeks over tweets by Sinn Féin TD and Public Accounts Committee chair Brian Stanley.