FILE - This is a Jan 8, 2018 file photo of Sinn Fein Member of Parliament Barry McElduff. McElduff and Irish nationalist lawmaker has resigned from Britain's Parliament after sparking outrage by appearing to mock a massacre during Northern Ireland's decades of violence. McElduff was shown in a Twitter video with a loaf of Kingsmill brand bread on his head, on the anniversary of the 1976 murder of 10 Protestant workmen by IRA militants in the village of Kingsmill.
FILE - This is a Jan 8, 2018 file photo of Sinn Fein Member of Parliament Barry McElduff. McElduff and Irish nationalist lawmaker has resigned from Britain's Parliament after sparking outrage by appearing to mock a massacre during Northern Ireland's decades of violence. McElduff was shown in a Twitter video with a loaf of Kingsmill brand bread on his head, on the anniversary of the 1976 murder of 10 Protestant workmen by IRA militants in the village of Kingsmill. PA, File via AP Niall Carson
FILE - This is a Jan 8, 2018 file photo of Sinn Fein Member of Parliament Barry McElduff. McElduff and Irish nationalist lawmaker has resigned from Britain's Parliament after sparking outrage by appearing to mock a massacre during Northern Ireland's decades of violence. McElduff was shown in a Twitter video with a loaf of Kingsmill brand bread on his head, on the anniversary of the 1976 murder of 10 Protestant workmen by IRA militants in the village of Kingsmill. PA, File via AP Niall Carson

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Sinn Fein lawmaker quits after video angers Troubles victims

The Associated Press

January 15, 2018 09:33 AM

LONDON

An Irish nationalist lawmaker has resigned from Britain's Parliament after sparking outrage by appearing to mock a massacre carried out during Northern Ireland's decades of violence.

Sinn Fein legislator Barry McElduff was shown in a Twitter video with a loaf of Kingsmill brand bread on his head, on the anniversary of the 1976 murder of 10 Protestant workmen by IRA militants in the village of Kingsmill.

McElduff said the video wasn't a reference to the slayings. But he was suspended by Sinn Fein, and quit his seat Monday in Parliament. He apologized for the "deep and unnecessary hurt" his video had caused.

The episode strained Catholic-Protestant relations in Northern Ireland at a delicate time. The power-sharing Belfast administration has been suspended for a year amid a feud between the parties.