Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said that she 'may well be the next Taoiseach' when the Dáil sits again following the general election.
Image: Niall Carson/PA Images Image: Niall Carson/PA Images SINN FÉIN LEADER Mary Lou McDonald has said that she “may well be the next Taoiseach” when the Dáil sits again following the general election.
Speaking on Morning Ireland earlier, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald reiterated that her preference is for a government without Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael.McDonald said Sinn Féin has already been in touch with the Green Party, the Social Democrats and Solidarity-People Before Profit, and will also talk to independents and Labour, “everybody outside the old two”, to establish “whether or not there are the numbers to deliver a government without Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael”.
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