TDs should channel their energy into health or housing issues rather than rival party's tweets
Comment 16 Dec 2020, 7:15 IT’s almost three weeks since Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley tweeted his widely-condemned conflation of IRA attacks in the War of Independence and the Northern Troubles. The story has dominated political debate and media coverage since. Stanley’s tweet was stupid and offensive, but did it merit exhausting so much political energy on it? 6 6 Nearly every party has had a tweet-related scandal and often the response is overegged. The cycle is monotonous — tweet causes outrage, outrage gets milked, retrospective outrage applies as new posts are found. Nothing along ...
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