Sinn Féin leader McDonald is weak, say rebellious TDs

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has been criticised by some of her own TDs for being a weak leader and for being too tolerant of underperforming colleagues. She needs to “stop being everyone’s friend”, they say.

As recrimination continues over the party’s disastrous European and local elections last month — it lost two of its three MEPs and 78 local council seats — many in the party have hit out at the leader’s role.