Statement by TUV party chairman Cusher councillor Keith Ratcliffe:
“The Jesuitical words from O’Neill about the Kingsmill inquest will cut no ice with those with any knowledge of the massacre.
“It is nauseatingly hypocritical for her to say that the families deserve truth and justice when the IRA who she continues to defend continue to maintain the fiction that they were not involved. To utter such words after a finding that Sinn Fein and the wider Republican movement had failed to cooperate with the inquest is reprehensible.
“Let us not forget that O’Neill only holds the position of First Minister because the DUP agreed to elevate her to that position – something they would not say they would do prior to the Assembly election. Sickeningly as a result, she is responsible for victims issues within the Executive.
“Such a perverse situation is utterly repugnant.”