SINN FEIN leader in Northern Ireland Michelle O’Neill defended her handling of the Barry McElduff affair today after the MP resigned, 10 days after causing outrage.

West Tyrone MP Mr McElduff quit over his Twitter post showing him walking around a supermarket with a loaf of Kingsmill bread on his head, asking staff where they kept that brand.

The day was the 42nd anniversary of the massacre of 10 Protestant workers near Kingsmill in Co Armagh county by group calling itself the South Armagh Republican Action Force.