Sinn Féin to consider response to McDonald's Dáil suspension

Officials have been instructed to stop Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald from entering the Dáil chamber if she tries to do so today.

The party's deputy leader is due to serve the second day of a suspension from the house after she staged a sit-in for several hours last Thursday, following a dispute with the Ceann Comhairle over her questioning of the Tánaiste.