:quality(70):focal(1248x557:1258x567)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/WINL2IWDNRBWPFR6XJYEGYM2R4.jpg "‘Their opponents painted them as a bunch of flip-floppers’: What next for Mary Lou McDonald and Sinn Féin?")
It was a scene that played out in count centres around the country. A grim-faced tallyman at a ballot box. A tap on the shoulder and...
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/HEHV5CDYVJFIVIFN2JRIKJMK24.jpg "‘Once you don’t vote for Ursula von very Leyen’: Sinn Féin candidate tests support in heartland")
This is not Kathleen Funchion’s first rodeo. In 2009, she contested the European election for Sinn Féin in the old East constituency. Then, she was a...