Tánaiste criticises Sinn Féin’s response to Hamas attack on Israeli civilians

Tánaiste Micheál Martin speaking to media after giving an oration and laying a wreath during the annual Wolfe Tone Commemoration in Bodenstown, Co Kildare. Photograph: Alan Betson

Party leader Mary Lou McDonald condemned the Hamas attack “outright” last Monday, two days after it occurred. She told RTÉ: “The targeting of civilians and the taking of hostages is to be condemned outright” and also said: “Looking at scenes where a lot of young people were out, enjoying themselves, to me it was such a violent and traumatic death.

In remarks which Mr Martin later confirmed referred to Sinn Féin he said: “If you cannot condemn this without a lengthy delay and without adding in weasel words about equivalence, all it does is prove that you do not actually believe in basic values.”

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