Laois Offaly TD Brian Stanley offers apology to those he has 'hurt' with IRA and Leo Varadkar tweets in the Dáil TEXT OF APOLOGY news@leinsterexpress.ie Laois Offaly TD Brian Stanley addresses the Dáil in the company of his party leader Mary Lou McDonald '); '); Laois Offaly TD Brian Stanley has apologised in the Dáil for tweets about IRA attacks and the Táinaist Leo Varadkar. The Chairman of the Dáil Public Accounts Committee, who sat near his party leader, issued a personal statement in the Dáil on Tuesday, December 15. He first addressed the tweet about the Narrow Water bomb in 1979 and the Kilmichael Ambush in 1920 which he had equated to lessons for 'slow learners.