I shouldn’t have attended Storey funeral in lockdown, ex-Sinn Fein minister says
A former Sinn Fein minister has accepted she should not have attended the funeral of senior republican Bobby Storey in Belfast while lockdown restrictions were in place.
Caral Ni Chuilin, who was Stormont’s communities minister in June 2020, apologised at the Covid-19 Inquiry to the families of victims of the virus, and also said she should not have travelled to the funeral in a ministerial car.
It came after two former ministers told the inquiry they believed the presence of Sinn Fein ministers at the funeral had undermined the public health message during the pandemic and increased the virus spread.
