Sinn Féin TD Réada Cronin’s ‘antisemitic’ tweets unacceptable, says party

A tweet in which a newly elected Sinn Féin TD said Israel had taken “Nazism to a new level” was “not acceptable”, Pearse Doherty has said.

Since the general election a number of tweets by Réada Cronin have resurfaced in which she expressed controversial views, such as describing fluoridation of water as poisoning. She used words such as “bitch” and “whore” to describe people.

Some of the tweets were made in 2012 and 2015, but others were made as recently as last year. Ms Cronin has apologised.

Mr Doherty, who is leading the party’s negotiations on forming a government, said: “She made some of those comments before she was even a member of Sinn Féin. I also understand that she has unreservedly withdrawn those comments