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Taoiseach Micheal Martin has taken a swipe a Sinn Fein while paying tribute to Michael Collins on the centenary of the revolutionary leader’s death.

Although Mr Martin did not mention is republican rivals by name, he said more must be done to “confront the new revisionism” of those who “try to claim legitimacy for violent campaigns waged in the face of the opposition of the Irish people”.

Sinn Fein vice-president Michelle O’Neill provoked a backlash in recent weeks when she said there was “no alternative” to the Provisional IRA’s 30-year terror campaign in Northern Ireland.

Speaking on Sunday at Beál na Bláth in Co Cork – where Collins was shot dead during the Irish civil war in 1922 – Mr Martin said: “We have to give no quarter to their attempts to link themselves to the men and women who fought our revolution over a century ago.

Micheal Martin takes swipe at Sinn Fein ‘revisionism’