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

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.

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