Politics
Mary Lou McDonald: ‘It’s high time we had a woman in the top job’
After a challenging year in which Sinn Féin saw a wobble in the polls, and its leader Mary Lou McDonald battled serious health issues, she tells the Business Post the experience has, if anything, given her greater clarity of purpose
As the new Dáil term approaches, there is a sense that Sinn Féin is flagging somewhat, and has lost some of the momentum of recent years.
A recent decision to bring a no confidence motion against Helen McEntee, the Minister for Justice, over the Dublin riots backfired spectacularly when the debate became as much about Sinn Féin’s militant past as it did about the government’s record on law and order.
Despite a pummelling on its ...
