Original sentence: A comment by the Republic's Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell on RTÉ's Questions and Answers live television debate programme, in which he claimed the newspaper was backed by the Provisional IRA and compared it to the Nazi party newspaper the Völkischer Beobachter, led to a threat of legal action for libel by the publishers of the papers.A member of the paper's management was later told by the Police Service of Northern Ireland that he was at risk of attack by loyalist paramilitaries.Critics have accused it of being overly supportive of the politics of Sinn Féin, the biggest nationalist party in Northern Ireland.They are not universally available in Northern Ireland and so have their principal market in the Republic of Ireland, unlike Daily Ireland which was intended to be an all-Ireland newspaper
Edited sentence: A comment by the Republic of Ireland's Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell on RTÉ's Questions and Answers live television debate programme, in which he claimed the newspaper was backed by the Provisional IRA and compared it to the Nazi party newspaper the Völkischer Beobachter, led to a threat of legal action for libel by the publishers of the papers.A member of the paper's management was later told by the Police Service of Northern Ireland that he was at risk of attack by unionist paramilitaries.Critics have accused it of being overly supportive of the politics of Sinn Féin, the biggest pro-Belfast Agreement party in Northern Ireland and the third-biggest party in Ireland.They are not universally available in Northern Ireland and so have their principle market in the Republic, unlike Daily Ireland which was intended to be an all-Ireland newspaper