Michelle O'Neill dismisses suggestion Bobby Sands not buried in cemetery of his choosing

Mural of Bobby Sands. Picture: Haydn West/PA

Sinn Féin’s vice president has described as “crass” the suggestion that IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands was not buried in the cemetery of his choosing.

Michelle O’Neill was commenting on a prison note purportedly written by Sands months before his death, in which he said he did not like Milltown cemetery in Belfast and would prefer to be buried in Ballina in Co Mayo.