Mary Lou McDonald says Trump's economic challenge to Ireland can be managed

Sinn Féin leader was responding to suggestions that Trump's promise to lower US corporation tax could damage Ireland's attempts to keep American multinationals working here

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald was speaking at the Sinn Féin Dublin Central general election launch at Wynn's Hotel on Thursday evening. Picture: Sam Boal/Collins

The incoming Trump administration does not pose an economic challenge for Ireland so great that cannot be managed, Mary Lou McDonald said, amid fears of what the Taoiseach has called "transatlantic trade shocks".

In her first comments on Donald Trump's victory, Ms McDonald said that, during his first term in the Oval Office, Irish corporate tax receipts rose "by 60% or something of that quantum", adding "I don't think there is, for us, economically speaking, anything that we cannot manage or mitigate".