Paul Hosford: For Sinn Féin, and for a United Ireland, there is little to be gained from flippant tweets

Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley, who has come under pressure over a recent tweet. Picture: Gareth Chaney Collins

There is violence in the DNA of the island of Ireland.

That violence only ended 22 years ago and still permeates much of the mindset of a part of the populace on this rock in the Atlantic.