Sinn Fein's Michelle O’Neill has urged people to be civil in public discourse after a pro-IRA slogan was chanted at an event involving the DUP's Arlene Foster
Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O’Neill has urged people to be civil in public discourse following an incident in which a woman chanted a pro-IRA slogan during an encounter with Dame Arlene Foster.
Dame Arlene’s father, a reserve police officer, survived after being shot in the head by the IRA in 1979, and she was a teenager when a school bus she was travelling on was targeted in an IRA bomb attack in 1988. Asked about the incident at the awards ceremony during a visit to Derry, Ms O’Neill said: “We all have to be careful, sensitive, mature and civil in all of our public discourse. In everything we say because things do have implications and impact on people.
Referring to Dame Arlene’s comments about republican leaders normalising such incidents, Ms O’Neill said: “There are different narratives of the past and we all have to be sensitive to that but I also think in political leadership your job is to steer the course and to ensure we encourage civility in our public discourse in everything we do and say.
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