Sinn Féin urged to correct Dáil record on teenager who received senator’s texts

Sinn Féin does not need to correct the Dáil record over a claim by party president Mary Lou McDonald that the teenager who was texted by a former party senator was 17, a TD has said.

The teenager told the Sunday Independent that he was 16 when he received what he described as “inappropriate messages” from Niall Ó Donnghaile last year.

On Sunday, Sinn Féin TD Louise O’Reilly reiterated a party apology to the young person for the hurt caused by the messages, but she said Ms McDonald’s statement to the Dáil last week, saying that he was 17, was based on information she understood to be accurate.

“So the information that was given to us by the young person was that they were 17, and that’s what was in Mary Lou McDonald’s speech on Tuesday of this week,” she told RTÉ One’s The Week in Politics programme.

“That was the information that we had. It was as we understood it, and there’s no further action required.”

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