Mary Lou McDonald apologises for IRA’s assassination of Lord Mountbatten

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald: "And I can say of course I am sorry that that happened, of course that is heart-breaking." Picture: Niall Carson/PA Archive

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has apologised for the IRA’s assassination of Lord Mountbatten following the funeral of the Prince Philip.

Ms McDonald described the murder of Lord Mountbatten – who died along with two members of his family and a Co Fermanagh teenager – on a fishing boat in County Sligo, Ireland, in 1979 as “heartbreaking”.