.MaryLouMcDonald said she would be a 'Taoiseach for all'
Mary Lou McDonald has indicated that she may stop attending IRA commemorations if she is elected Taoiseach.The Sinn Féin leader was speaking in response to a question surrounding the controversy caused by party councillor, John Finucane, attending an event to commemorate ‘South Armagh Volunteers’ over the weekend.
Ms McDonald told reporters in the Gresham Hotel in Dublin on Monday afternoon: “If I were to be Taoiseach, if I had the privilege of leading a government, I will be a Taoiseach for everybody. This was further bolstered when Ms McDonald also said that she would consider voting for a resolution to sanction the Special Criminal Court.
The non-jury court is usually used in gangland criminal cases, but it was often used in the past to try terrorists from the IRA. “I think if anybody knows about the need to be respectful, compassionate and inclusive in our remembrance, I would respectfully suggest that it's somebody like John Finucane and I think we need to not play politics with this.
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