Lord Kilclooney withdraws tweet in which he referred to the Taoiseach as ‘the Indian’

Lord Kilclooney has withdrawn a tweet in which he described The Taoiseach as “the Indian”.

The former Deputy leader in the Ulster Unionist party said the tweet was “not racist” but “shorth

and for an Indian surname which I could not spell”.

Lord Kilclooney has since written that the tweet had “caused upset and misunderstanding” so he was withdrawing it.

The former Northern Irish MP issued the tweet last night in response to a news story about Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney.

He wrote: “Simon Coveney is stirring things up. Very dangerous non statesman like role! Clearly hoping to undermine the Indian.”

Afterwards, Mr Kilclooney said that he was unsure of how to spell Mr Varadkar’s name and had used the word Indian as “shorthand”.

This was despite many pointing out that he had on many occassions spelt the Taoiseachs name correctly.

The former Ulster Unionist Party politician hit the headlines earlier this week when he told Ocean FM that Co Donegal would be better off being in the UK.