Sinn Féin’s double standards Down Under

Mary Lou McDonald’s fondness for business class jars with the supposed asceticism of her party.

I was asked recently what I thought of Sinn Féin vice-president Mary Lou McDonald TD travelling business class to Australia to promote her party. I said I thought the world was being stood on its head when promoting Sinn Féin attracted the Rolls-Royce comforts of business class while promoting the country in the same destination involved jobs minister Richard Bruton taking his chances back in economy.

My interlocutor was uninterested in the minister’s ...