Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has apologised for the IRA’s assassination of Lord Mountbatten following the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh.
Ms McDonald described the murder of Lord Mountbatten – who died along with two members of his family and a Co Fermanagh teenager – on a fishing boat in County Sligo, Ireland, in 1979 as “heartbreaking”.
Her comments came a day after a funeral service was held for Philip, Lord Mountbatten’s nephew, at Windsor Castle on Saturday.
When asked on Times Radio whether she would apologise to the Prince of Wales over the assassination – which her predecessor Gerry Adams reportedly refused to do – she said: “The army and the armed forces associated with Prince Charles carried out many, many violent actions on our island.”
Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has apologised for the IRA’s assassination of Lord Mountbatten following the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh.
Ms McDonald described the murder of Lord Mountbatten – who died along with two members of his family and a Co Fermanagh teenager – on a fishing boat in County Sligo, Ireland, in 1979 as “heartbreaking”.
Her comments came a day after a funeral service was held for Philip, Lord Mountbatten’s nephew, at Windsor Castle on Saturday.
When asked on Times Radio whether she would apologise to the Prince of Wales over the assassination – which her predecessor Gerry Adams reportedly refused to do – she said: “The army and the armed forces associated with Prince Charles carried out many, many violent actions on our island.”
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Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has apologised for the IRA’s assassination of Lord Mountbatten following the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh.
Ms McDonald described the murder of Lord Mountbatten – who died along with two members of his family and a Co Fermanagh teenager – on a fishing boat in County Sligo, Ireland, in 1979 as “heartbreaking”.
Her comments came a day after a funeral service was held for Philip, Lord Mountbatten’s nephew, at Windsor Castle on Saturday.
When asked on Times Radio whether she would apologise to the Prince of Wales over the assassination – which her predecessor Gerry Adams reportedly refused to do – she said: “The army and the armed forces associated with Prince Charles carried out many, many violent actions on our island.”