Sinn Féin says newly-elected TD was right to remove controversial remarks from Twitter

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A Sinn Féin TD who apologised for controversial remarks she made on Twitter before she was an elected representative will not face further disciplinary action from the party

Réada Cronin, centre, alongside Mary Lou McDonald in 2016. Image: Rollingnews.ie/Sinn Fein Réada Cronin, centre, alongside Mary Lou McDonald in 2016. Image: Rollingnews.ie/Sinn Fein A SINN FÉIN TD who apologised for controversial remarks she made on Twitter before she was an elected representative will not face further disciplinary action from the party.

Doherty said that the party has guidelines for how members and elected representatives use social media. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar had condemned Cronin’s social media comments in which she is reported to have criticised Israel, suggested Irish judges could be paedophiles and repeated conspiracy theories about fluoride in water.

Varadkar tweeted the remarks of the new Sinn Féin TD “should trouble us all”. This is not the kind of change we need,” he added. In other tweets, reported by Gript, she repeatedly criticised Israel, and also retweeted a statement linking Hitler to the Rothschild family.The anti-Semitic & anti-science remarks of one of Sinn Fein’s new TDs should trouble us all. This is not the kind of change we need #themaskslipsagain #notanormalpartyCronin has now suspended her Twitter account, which was set up in 2011.“Some old tweets, most from before joining Sinn Féin and entering politics, have come to my attention.

 

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She shouldn't face any action, she said what everyone who's honest believes, Israhell is a pariah state 😡

Surprise surprise

If that was a fg td.theyd be calling for he's head

No surprise there. If it was a FG td they would have called for a resignation.

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