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InterviewSinn Féin
Sinn Féin leader eyes power in Ireland after wilderness years
...Just a few years after Ireland’s pro-unity Sinn Féin party shook off its image as a political pariah and broke into the political mainstream, its leader Mary Lou McDonald is eyeing power through a general...
January 4, 2024
Ireland
Ireland’s ‘TikTok Taoiseach’ vows new social contract
...Mary Lou McDonald, leader of Ireland’s biggest party, the nationalist Sinn Féin, slammed his appointment, saying his tenure as health minister had proved you could “fail your way right to the very, very...
April 9, 2024
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Ireland
Leo Varadkar to step down as Ireland’s prime minister
...Fine Gael has been in government for too long,” Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald told broadcaster RTÉ. “Another Fine Gael taoiseach is not what the country needs at this time.”...
March 20, 2024
News in-depthIreland
Sinn Féin struggles to keep ‘angry vote’ after referendum loss
...Even before the referendum debacle, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald was under pressure....
March 14, 2024
News in-depthNorthern Ireland
N Ireland unionists and nationalists pledge prosperity for opposite ends
...Lou McDonald, said put reunification “within touching distance”....
February 10, 2024
Ireland
Irish voters reject constitutional referendums on women and the family
...The government “didn’t convince”, said Mary Lou McDonald, leader of opposition party Sinn Féin that opinion polls show is the most popular in Ireland and which backed a “yes/yes” vote....
March 9, 2024
FT Live
Europe votes
Will the European parliamentary elections change the EU? | Subscriber exclusive
Wednesday, 12 JuneDigital Conference
ReviewNon-Fiction
Sinn Féin: change maker or party trapped in its past?
...Mary Lou McDonald, the leader of Ireland’s Sinn Féin party, took to breakfast TV on her return to work last month after a hysterectomy, preaching openness about the once-taboo issue of women’s health....
October 10, 2023
ReviewFilm
Scala!!! — entertaining ode to London’s lost utopia of cinema-going
...Interviewees include filmmakers (among them John Waters and Mary Harron) and habitués such as comedian Stewart Lee and musician Barry Adamson, who contributes the score....
January 4, 2024
Northern Ireland Assembly
Sunak urges Northern Irish executive to focus on ‘day-to-day matters’
...O’Neill and Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald criticised “obnoxious” language in last week’s deal with the Democratic Unionist party to end its two-year boycott of Stormont, according to a person with knowledge...
February 5, 2024
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland unionists signal deal on post-Brexit trade is near
...Mary Lou McDonald, leader of the nationalist Sinn Féin party that is the largest on both sides of the Irish border, said on Wednesday evening that the “moment of truth” for the DUP to decide to return to...
December 14, 2023
Northern Ireland
MPs pass legislation aimed at reviving N Ireland executive
...Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said this week in Belfast that conversations about a “new Ireland” were gaining traction and Irish reunification was “within touching distance”....
February 1, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
A moment of high symbolism for Northern Ireland
...Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Féin president, said last week O’Neill’s elevation would bring Irish unity “within touching distance”. Yet unity remains, for now, a distant prospect....
February 4, 2024
Northern Ireland
Stormont prepares to reconvene with region’s first nationalist leader
...Party leader Mary Lou McDonald, who hopes to become Ireland’s Taoiseach in elections in the south due by March 2025, said reunification was coming within “touching distance”....
February 2, 2024
Northern Ireland
N Ireland talks to continue after DUP deals blow to hopes of pre-Christmas accord
...Mary Lou McDonald, leader of the nationalist Sinn Féin party, told the FT that the British government needed to improve its offer....
December 18, 2023
Ireland
Ireland to launch case against UK over law on legacy of Troubles
...Mary Lou McDonald, leader of Sinn Féin, the largest party on the island of Ireland, hailed the move, saying “this cruel and shameful act is a flagrant breach of international human rights law”....
December 20, 2023
FT Live
Energy Transition Summit
Delivering a stable and efficient clean energy system
Tuesday, 22 OctoberLondon, UK & Online
ObituaryMusic
Shane MacGowan, musician, 1957-2023
...“Nobody told the Irish story like Shane,” said Mary Lou McDonald, leader of nationalist opposition party Sinn Féin....
December 1, 2023
Britain after Brexit
Brexit highlights divisions in Ireland rather than heals them Premium content
...Although Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald was criticised, in turn, for using Stormont’s return to say her party’s goal of Irish reunification was within “touching distance”....
February 8, 2024
Europe Express
Why the EU plans to extend its emergency state aid rules Premium content
...The move follows strenuous calls by leader Mary Lou McDonald at the party’s conference this weekend for the Israeli ambassador to Ireland to be expelled....
November 14, 2023
Film
Remembering London’s Scala cinema — the closest filmgoing ever got to clubbing
...The King’s Cross Cinema at 275 Pentonville Road, meanwhile, hosted the first UK gigs of Lou Reed and Iggy Pop’s Stooges in July 1972....
December 29, 2023
Property sector
Realtor reckoning: US brokers fear for their $100bn commission pool
...“I do think some people are going to have to leave the industry,” said Mary Lou Wertz, founding partner of Maison Real Estate in Charleston, South Carolina. “I think this will shake some people out.”...
November 17, 2023
Live news updates from April 12: US inflation eases, LVMH sales jump on China rebound
Sinn Féin calls on Biden to send ‘clear message’ to DUP on Stormont boycott
...Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Féin’s leader, said she had “no doubt” Biden shared her disappointment that Northern Ireland’s government was not up and running as he commemorates the anniversary of the Good Friday...
April 12, 2023
Inside Politics
DUP boycott looks to be driving its backers away
...Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald, at her party’s conference in Athlone on Saturday, said the British government must “stop endlessly indulging” the DUP boycott....
November 13, 2023
Northern Ireland
‘Genuine differences’ remain over NI protocol, says UK foreign secretary
...But he triggered a local dispute by refusing to allow Mary Lou McDonald, head of the all-island nationalist Sinn Féin party, to attend talks....
January 11, 2023
Live news updates from February 27: UK and EU reach Northern Ireland deal, Russia launches air strikes
Sinn Féin calls on DUP to return to Northern Ireland’s power-sharing executive
...People in the north want and deserve certainty and stability,” Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald said in a statement. She said her party would meet on Monday night to study the text in detail....
February 27, 2023
Live news updates from February 17: Qatari banker bids for Man U, European gas hits 18-month low
Progress made over Northern Ireland row, says DUP leader
...Mary Lou McDonald, president of the nationalist Sinn Féin party, said after meeting Sunak: “It’s clear now that significant progress has been made and we’re very heartened by that.”...
February 17, 2023

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