Sinn Féin looks to a political future beyond Adams and McGuinness

The party has already agreed a decisive shift in its coalition policy by agreeing to consider going into government as a junior rather than senior partner

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams with Northern leader Michelle O’Neill, and Mary Lou McDonald Pic: Rolling News

It was a tale of dealing with two departures at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis yesterday.

A new section was quietly inserted into the party constitution, allowing for a future Extraordinary Ard Fheis to be called within three months after the departure of Gerry Adams as president after 34 years in the role.

But while there were huddled conversations among the 3,000 party members in the RDS in Dublin about the post-Adams era, ...