Political establishment trying to push back against desire for change, McDonald tells Cork rally

The Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald, has rejected suggestions that her party's public rallies this week are "an affront to democracy."

The Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonal, has rejected suggestions that her party's public rallies this week are "an affront to democracy."

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar hit out at the party's rallies yesterday and said that they were a campaign of "intimation and bullying".