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HARDtalk: Leader of Ireland's Sinn Fein party Mary Lou McDonald

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Leader of Ireland's Sinn Fein party Mary Lou McDonald

31/07/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - HARDtalk, Leader of Ireland's Sinn Fein party Mary Lou McDonald

Sinn Fein won the most votes at Ireland's election last February. Is it still as popular?

Mary Lou McDonald is leader of Ireland's Sinn Fein party which won the most votes during last February's election but failed to form a government. Has their moment passed?

Last February the talk in Ireland was of a political earthquake. The nationalist party Sinn Féin won the most votes in the general election and promised to smash the status quo. Well, so much for that. Ireland’s two old established political parties instead formed a grand coalition and are steering the country through the Covid-19 crisis and Brexit. HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Mary Lou McDonald, the leader of Sinn Féin. Has her party missed its moment?

Photo: Mary Lou McDonald Credit: PA

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