Campbell accuses O’Neill of causing new generation to ‘romanticise’ Troubles

Gregory Campbell of the Democratic Unionist Party. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

The DUP’s Gregory Campbell has claimed Michelle O’Neill’s leadership has caused a new generation to grow up to “romanticise the campaign of shooting and bombing”.

The MP made the comments after a LucidTalk poll showed that nearly seven in 10 nationalist voters agreed with comments by Sinn Féin vice president Ms O’Neill that there was “no alterative” to IRA violence during Northern Ireland’s troubled past.