As the leader of Eire’s opposition, Mary Lou McDonald is the new face of a political party best known for its association with the IRA paramilitary group.
as the party campaigns heavily on cost of living issues, such as housing. It’s something that resonates strongly with Ireland’s population, which is one of the youngest in Europe.“This was an overnight success that was 20 years in the making,” McDonald says. “I’m very conscious it is a very dangerous enterprise to assume election results when no election has been called, much less been had.
Adams was an early political mentor for McDonald after she joined Sinn Fein in 1999, after a brief stint in centre-right Fianna Fail. By 2004, she was elected to the European parliament. She lost her seat in 2009, but two years later, she was elected to the Irish Dail. McDonald, centre, with Sinn Fein colleagues Michelle O’Neil, right, and Martina Anderson, knocking down a symbolic wall between Ireland and Northern Ireland in 2019.McDonald’s family connection with the IRA goes back to the 1920s, when her great uncle, James O’Connor, was a member. He was charged with illegally possessing firearms.
“Consequently, people now have a higher expectation of what politics must deliver for them and what Ireland can be.” of Australian lawyers Nick Spanos and Stephen Melrose in 1990, killed by IRA gunmen in the Netherlands after being mistaken as off-duty British soldiers. Only one of the alleged killers was convicted, and that was overturned on appeal, leaving the families feeling justice was not done.
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