Mary Lou McDonald accepts numbers 'very, very difficult' to form govt of left

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has acknowledged that it will be “very, very tricky” to construct a Government of the left excluding Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael given how the numbers have fallen after last Saturday’s election.

“What hasn’t changed is the need for any new Government of change to be different, and to deliver differently and in terms of connection with people’s everyday lives,” Ms McDonald said this afternoon at a photo call for her party’s 32 returned TDs at Leinster House.