Mary Lou McDonald

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has told party members that he's not fixated by timeframes amid speculation that a deal is imminent. Photo: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press.

Donaldson: Green lane neither 'acceptable or practical'

The Irish Army on parade in Carndonagh

Dublin move to end UN veto on deployment of Irish soldiers 'a dose of realism'

Sinn Fein's Stormont leader Michelle O’Neill took and lost a libel case over a minor insut while SF president Mary Lou McDonald is a serial suer. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Ruth Dudley Edwards: SF try to muzzle their critics in the media and in politics

14 NOVEMBER 1992: COLERAINE TOWN CENTRE AFTER 500LB IRA VAN BOMB CAUSED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE

'Sinn Fein is now a hair's breadth away from ditching links to the IRA'

Ben Dunne was kidnapped by the IRA in 1981. He was released after seven days after a ransom was reportedly paid

Tributes paid after Irish businessman Ben Dunne dies in Dubai aged 74

Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald

'SF shuns the politics of condemnation - but is quick to condemn Israel'

Speakers at the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis at the Technological University of Shannon Campus in Athlone, County Westmeath. Picture date: Friday November 10, 2023. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Belfast not Dublin still calls the shots in Sinn Fein says Mairia Cahill

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has said the position of the Israeli ambassador to Ireland is “now untenable”

Israeli ambassador’s position is ‘now untenable’, says Sinn Fein leader

A computer generated image of how the redeveloped Casement Park will look. The momentum behind controversial plans to invest £100m in the west Belfast GAA stadium for Euro 2028 has come from failed republican efforts to open a 'peace centre' at the Maze, the TUV has claimed.
Image: Ulster GAA

Momentum for Casement is from failed Maze centre: TUV

Máiria Cahill has been an outspoken critic of Sinn Fein for years. She has just released her new book Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Cahill’s story tells how courage can surmount obstacles

Nigel Farage talks to the News Letter editor Ben Lowry at the Conservative Party conference yesterday and says that Lord Empey’s criticism of him was “misguided”

Nigel Farage was not misquoted on an all Ireland, says Irish Times

Nigel Farage talks to the News Letter editor Ben Lowry at the Conservative Party conference yesterday and says that Lord Empey’s criticism of him was “misguided”

I don't think an all Ireland is likely and I'm not SF's friend, says Farage

Ex UUP then Ukip MLA David McNarry, centre, with Ukip leader Nigel Farage, right, canvassing for Brexit in Belfast in 2016. Those who tried to convince unionists to vote for a party led by someone who isn't a true believer in the Union see he stabbed them in the back. His belief that a united Ireland is coming will delight republicans. Pic: Stephen Hamilton /Presseye

Reg Empey: Unionists fell into trap thinking Brexiteers like Farage care

Rossa Fanning SC, the Republic of Ireland's Attorney General, is deciding whether it is appropriate to take legal action against Britain. The Irish might, with an inter-state challenge, tip the balance and bring about UK withdrawal from the Council of Europe

Barrister: Ireland should hesitate before suing the UK over legacy act

DUP MP Carla Lockhart. Parliament TV

We respect the ballot box but we must get foundations right for Stormont: DUP

Sinn Fein's Stormont leader Michelle O’Neill and president Mary Lou McDonald. Ms McDonald had said no-one in NI was suitable as chief constable. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Letter: Sinn Fein have played policing like a cat and mouse
A letter from Gareth Burns:

Thomas Niedermayer with wife Ingeborg and children Renate and Gabriele. New documentary 'Face Down' tells the story of the 1973 IRA killing of Thomas Niedermayer, the German boss of the Belfast Grundig factory

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Niedermayer film exposes ghastly reality of IRA terrorism

Ballot box

Call to probe finances of Sinn Fein on both sides of the irish border

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar

Ireland will consider treaty breach lawsuit if UK’s Legacy Bill passed

IRA mural in the Ardoyne

Mary Lou McDonald 'cultivating air of ambiguity' over Provisional IRA events

If the northern surge is replicated in the Republic’s next election, the Dail will be in the hands of Sinn Fein TDs. The only way to keep them out of government is to form a shotgun marriage between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil

John Coulter: The Republic needs a pan nationalist front to stop an SF Taoiseach

Ian Paisley, DUP MP for North Antrim

Ian Paisley: We are nowhere near the risk of a border poll

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar inspecting a guard of honour from the Defence Forces prior to the ceremony of reconciliation and remembrance for those who lost their lives during the Civil War in the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin

100 years since end of Irish Civil War commemorated in Dublin

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald said that 'engagement and planning' for a border poll could be done alongside the return of the Stormont assembly

Planning for border poll can happen while restoring Stormont – Sinn Fein leader

Former Irish rugby captain Rory Best in Cong in Co. Mayo with wife Jodie and children Penny, Ben and Richard followed by locals and families of children with a cancer diagnosis having walked 330 km in 10 days from the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, to raise money to develop a new therapeutic short-break centre, Daisy Lodge in Cong, Co Mayo.

Rory finishes 330km fundraising walk for child cancer services

Rory Best pictured with Naomi Howlin on May 16 at the start of his charity walk at the Aviva Stadium. The former Ireland rugby captain completed his 330km 10-day walk today when he reached Cong, Co Mayo

Rory Best finishes 330km endurance walk fundraiser for child cancer services

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson speaks to the media in City Hall, Belfast during the local government election count

Sinn Fein ‘turning nationalist vote into republican vote’ -Sir Jeffrey Donaldson
Sinn Fein's council election success was a case of the party "turning a nationalist vote into a republican vote", DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said.

Ballots are tallied in the Great Hall of Belfast City Hall as counting begins in the Northern Ireland council elections

Counting resumes in Northern Ireland local government elections

The DUP's Alison Bennington celebrates being elected for Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council at the Valley Leisure Centre count in Newtownabbey today.
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Counting continues in Northern Ireland local government elections

President Mary Lou McDonald (left) and Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle O'Neill (right) speak to the media at Belfast City Hall as results continue to come in for the Northern Ireland local elections

Election results show need for power sharing return, says Sinn Fein President

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has accused Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald of evading accountability over her party’s finances and “links to organised crime”. Ms McDonald has previously said her party stands against organised crime. On April 20, she told the Dail: “Sinn Fein stands 100% with law-abiding citizens, with the members of An Garda Siochana, with the the court system, all of it, including the Special Criminal Court, against the threat of organised crime.”

Varadkar accuses Sinn Fein of evading accountability in heated Dail exchange

Northern Ireland's 11 council areas

Election 2023: Here is every council candidate standing in NI on May 18

Alliance Party leader Naomi Long. Her party says it is running in 78 District Electoral Areas out of 80, which it says is more than any other party in this election.

Alliance hopes to repeat 2019 council election surge

Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O'Neill (left) and Sinn Fein Party leader Mary Lou McDonald at the Titanic Hotel in Belfast during the launch for the Sinn Fein candidates for the NI council elections

DUP warns against unionist 'vote-shredding' in upcoming election

A Sinn Fein pin badge

Ards and North Down 'to remain Sinn Fein-free' in council election

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said Sinn Fein is not “guilty by association” with its former councillor Jonathan Dowdall, who is in prison for his involvement in the 2016 Regency Hotel murder

Sinn Fein not ‘guilty by association’ with Jonathan Dowdall, says Leo Varadkar

US President Joe Biden (right) at The Windsor with Tanaiste Michael Martin in Dundalk, Co Louth, during his trip to the island of Ireland. Picture date: Wednesday April 12, 2023.

US President Joe Biden to address Irish Parliament as visit continues

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (third right) at RAF Aldergrove airbase in County Antrim, ahead of the arrival of US President Joe Biden for his visit to the island of Ireland. Picture date: Tuesday April 11, 2023.

Biden visit: Sinn Fein president laments DUP boycott of Stormont

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris speaking to the media at Hillsborough Castle after his meetings with Stormont leaders over Brexit and the Windsor Framework.

NI budget not in a good state says Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris

Mary Lou McDonald has said that Boris Johnson’s government had not been “upfront” with unionism, and had been determined to act “in a unilateral fashion”.

Mary Lou says Johnson government was ‘not upfront’ with unionism

Chuck Schumer

Call for end to DUP Stormont boycott by top US Democrat draws sharp TUV rebuke

PACEMAKER PRESS BELFAST 01/03/2023
Sinn Fein's Mary Lou McDonald

Mary Lou McDonald plays down significance of US newspaper adverts on Irish unity

Majority Leader of the US Senate Chuck Schumer speaking at the Ireland Funds 31st National Gala. National Building Museum, in Washington, DC, during the Taoiseach's visit to the US for St Patrick's Day. Picture date: Thursday March 16, 2023.

DUP urged to restore powersharing institutions by US senate leader

Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O'Neill (left), Sinn Fein Party leader Mary Lou McDonald (right) and former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams (back right) carry the coffin of the IRA fugitive Rita O'Hare at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. Ruth Dudley Edwards writes: "O'Neill and McDonald will trudge on giving their pathetic eulogies to terrorists, but they’re looking over their shoulders" PA Picture: Tuesday March 7, 2023

Ruth Dudley Edwards: NI could prosper in future - the last thing that SF needs

Sinn Fein Party leader Mary Lou McDonald (with vice president Michelle O'Neill)

McDonald issues fresh demands for the DUP to drop boycott of Stormont

Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O'Neill (left), Sinn Fein Party leader Mary Lou McDonald (right) and former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams (back right) carry the coffin of former Sinn Fein general secretary Rita O'Hare at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin

McDonald pledges to deliver Irish unity in funeral tribute to veteran republican

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson acknowledged improvements had been made to post-Brexit Irish Sea trading arrangements for Northern Ireland but said questions remain about “core sectors of our economy”.

Donaldson: DUP won’t be knocked off course by rhetoric over Framework

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and Rita O'Hare during the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony as the award was being presented to US Senator George Mitchell.Rita O’Hare has died at the age of 80.

Belfast-born former Sinn Fein general secretary Rita O’Hare dies aged 80

Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald and Deputy President Michelle O’Neill at a press conference in their party room at Parliament Buildings at Stormont, east Belfast

SF ‘should apologise for previously demanding EU rigorously implement protocol’

Lorries at Larne Port

Mary Lou McDonald says Rishi Sunak believes 'core' of the Protocol is ok

Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O'Neill

Sinn Fein complains DUP is 'holding everybody to ransom'

In a lecture in the Guildhall on Bloody Sunday, Mary Lou McDonald said that her daughter, four, was distressed to see a TV programme which featured the 1972 killings. Thomas Smyth writes that the Sinn Fein leader is fortunate her daughter's distress was not provoked by footage of the horrors caused by PIRA atrocities

Letter: SF leader lucky her daughter never saw TV images of IRA horrors

A Sinn Fein pin badge

Sinn Fein stresses it follows salary rules as DUP makes MP income call

Letters to editor

Letter: Michelle seems set to make way for Mary Lou McDonald at helm of SF

Irish foreign affairs minister Micheal Martin has challenged Sinn Fein to deal with the legacy of the Troubles

Micheal Martin challenges Sinn Fein to deal with Troubles legacy