Sinn Féin found McElduff’s ‘stupid’ actions impossible to defend
As Kingsmill video controversy intensified ‘no one was jumping to his defence’
Barry McElduff, who has resigned as Sinn Féin. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Sinn Féin figures said they found it impossible to defend former party MP Barry McElduff, who resigned his Westminster seat on Monday over a controversial social media video that was widely interpreted to reference the Kingsmill massacre.
The video featured Mr McElduff in a shop joking with a loaf of Kingsmill bread on his head and was posted on the 42nd anniversary of the killing of 10 Protestant workmen in an IRA shooting.