Politics

McDonald: We paid for our house ‘the way all working people pay for their family home’

Sinn Féin leader addressed questions about her home in Cabra for the first time following the publication of a new book which raises questions over the property

Mary Lou McDonald: the Sinn Féin leader said she had made clear from ‘the get go’ that she would not be cooperating with a new book by Shane Ross. Picture: Rollingnews.ie

Mary Lou McDonald has said she paid for her house in Dublin “the way all working people pay for their family home – we have a mortgage and are still paying it”, after questions were raised about the Cabra property in a new book.

The Sinn Féin leader today addressed questions about the property for the first time since the publication last month of a new unauthorised biography of her by Shane Ross, the former ...