Tánaiste among those to criticise Sinn Féin MP John Finucane’s planned attendance at event this weekend
He was speaking to media in Belfast on Wednesday after meeting with representatives of political parties amid the ongoing Stormont deadlock.
Mr Murphy told reporters on Wednesday that the commemoration had been running for almost 13 years and received little publicity until now. He added that everyone had “the right to commemorate their dead in a dignified way”. It was Mr Martin’s first trip to the North since last month’s council elections in which Sinn Féin made history by outpolling the DUP and replicating its success in last year’s Assembly elections.Northern Ireland a ‘disaster’ and UK government has ‘responsibility to step in’, says former Stormont speakerMr Martin said “the people have spoken” and that Ms O’Neill is “certainly entitled to become the first minister”.
Her visit came in advance of that of Mr Sunak who will meet US president Joe Biden in the White House on Thursday. She said she wanted to appeal to the Biden administration and the politicians on Capitol Hill and to impress upon them that the British prime minister “needs to hear a very strong message” from Washington.
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