Taoiseach is ‘cosying up to SF’s Mary Lou’

Fianna Fáil deputy leader Dara Calleary has said Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is cosying up to Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald, adding that relations between the two parties are warmer now than ever before.

Speaking to the Irish Examiner for the first time since being appointed, Mr Calleary said that the overtures toward Ms McDonald are not just isolated to the comments from junior minister Jim Daly.

“It is very interesting,” he said. “It is clear it is not just Jim Daly. You can see there is a particularly warm relationship between Leo and Mary Lou which wasn’t there with Gerry Adams.”