Sinn Fein Leader Mary Lou McDonald Criticises Irish Government and Calls for a New Ireland

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has criticised the “jaded politics” of the Irish government along with “devastating Tory austerity” as she set out the party’s ambition to lead north and south of the border.In her address, Ms McDonald also said housing is the party’s top priority and that “momentum is building” for Irish unification.

Ms McDonald told Sinn Fein delegates that the next year provides an opportunity to “make history” in upcoming elections. She said there is a possibility for a new Irish government without Fianna Fail and Fine Gael “for the first time in 100 years”. The Stormont Assembly remains collapsed amid protest action from the Democratic Unionist Party over post-Brexit trading arrangements and Sinn Fein has accused the UK government of pandering to its concerns.She told the hundreds of gathered Sinn Fein members that housing is the party’s “number one priority”. She said the home ownership has “collapsed for an entire nation” under the current government.

Ms McDonald re-iterated the party’s call for a Citizens’ Assembly on Irish Unity as she said government must plan for “democratic constitutional change”. “And friends, in our time, we will unite our country and build a nation home for everyone. This is the momentous task before us but we do not walk alone. We walk together. Together for our people, together for the republic.

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