KildareNow have distanced themselves from a post that appeared on their website on Friday morning, headlined, ‘Jihadist annexes Kildare landmark.’
The owners of the website issued a clarification on Friday afternoon in which they claimed that, ‘the story was completely unauthorised and was not posted by a member of the editorial team.’
They have removed the story from their website, and from the site’s Facebook and Twitter accounts. They’re also launching an investigation into how this happened.
‘KildareNow would like to apologise unreservedly to everybody who was rightly offended by the article which was extremely insensitive especially in light of recent tragic events in Brussels and elsewhere,’ they wrote.
‘We are taking this matter very seriously and a full internal investigation is now underway into how the KildareNow site was accessed by an unauthorised person in this way.’
The read the apology in full, click here.
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