‘Petty and personal’: Deputy First Minister in online spat with SDLP MLA over extending Irish Presidential election voting rights to NI

Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland Emma Little-Pengelly (Brian Lawless/PA)

Two senior DUP and SDLP figures have engaged in a war of words over voting rights for NI citizens in the Irish presidential election, with the deputy First Minister accusing Stormont’s Opposition leader of a “petty and personal” attack.

Emma Little-Pengelly took to social media to respond to primary school principal and political commentator, Chris Donnelly – and ended up in a very public argument with the SDLP’s Matthew O’Toole.