Politics
A Republican Riddle: Provocative portrait of the middle-class Dubliner who came to lead Sinn Féin
Bombastic and never dull, this unauthorised biography by Shane Ross is a thorough investigation of Mary Lou McDonald, but ultimately is big on commentary rather than revelations
Shane Ross begins his lively, colourful and provocative biography of Mary Lou McDonald by assuring his readers that he personally likes her. Since the Sinn Féin leader will most likely be Taoiseach one day, however, he believes we deserve to know a lot more about her than she has ever revealed.
Tongue perhaps in cheek, the former Independent Alliance minister hopes they can still be friends – to which McDonald might reasonably reply: with friends ...
