Sinn Fein suspends MP over video of him balancing Kingsmill bread on head

A Sinn Fein MP has been suspended by his party for three months for posting a social media video of himself balancing a loaf of Kingsmill bread on his head on the anniversary of the Kingsmill massacre. West Tyrone MP Barry McElduff said he accepted the sanction imposed by the Sinn Fein leadership but reiterated his insistence that the contentious post was not meant as a reference to the sectarian murders of 10 Protestant workmen at the village of Kingsmill in 1976. Announcing the punishment, Sinn Fein's Stormont leader Michelle O'Neill apologised to the Kingsmill families. She said the tweet was "ill-judged and indefensible" but said she did not believe it was intentionally malicious. Mrs O'Neill also confirmed that her party colleague would continue to get paid his Sinn Fein party salary during his suspension. Unionists have criticised Sinn Fein for not being tougher on Mr McElduff, with some branding a three-month suspension with continued pay as a "cop out". Mr McElduff was censured by party chiefs after a lengthy meeting at Sinn Fein headquarters in west Belfast on Monday. Afterwards, the republican MP reiterated what he described as a "deep and sincere" apology to relatives...