Sinn Féin TD Chris Andrews has lodged defamation proceedings against The Irish Times and one of its journalists over an article on the party’s position on Palestine in the wake of the surprise Hamas attack on Israel. The lawsuit was initiated following a piece on Sinn Féin’s response to the attack by the newspaper’s political correspondent Harry McGee, published on Saturday, October 15. The article quotes Andrews’ reaction on X (formerly Twitter) to President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen’s tweet unequivocally condemning the actions of Hamas. The Dublin Bay South politician tweeted on October 8: “It seems that…

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