The Sinn Fein leader said she has written to the teenager and his mother ‘offering a full, unequivocal and sincere apology’.

Mary Lou McDonald has offered a “full, unequivocal” apology to the teenager sent inappropriate texts by former Sinn Fein ...

Mary Lou McDonald has apologised in the Dáil to the teenager who was sent inappropriate text messages by former Sinn Féin ...

Ms O’Neill had previously told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that party records had shown the teenager was 17 when ...

DUP assembly member Brian Kingston said the party will question O'Neill on Wednesday.

The first minister has also told the assembly that the recipient of the texts from the former Belfast mayor was 17 years of ...

It was reported last weekend that Hutch intended to act as a spoiler candidate for Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald.

Mary Lou McDonald will also correct the Dáil record on the young man’s age after it was incorrectly stated he was 17 when he ...

Mary Lou McDonald is coming under further pressure to issue an apology to a teenager who was sent “inappropriate” texts by a former Sinn Féin senator. Taoiseach Simon Harris has accused the Sinn Féin ...

The ​First Minister has told the Assembly that the child who received inappropriate messages from the former Sinn Fein leader in the Seanad was “in fact 17” according to the party’s membership records ...

Comedian Patrick Kielty’s description of Sinn Fein as “traitors” on RTE’s Late, Late Show was “miles away from satire” and should prompt an apology from Ireland’s national broadcaster, a party TD has ...

There is growing pressure on Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald to correct the Dáil record after she incorrectly stated that a teenager sent ­inappropriate texts by a former party senator was 17 years ...