Elaine Loughlin: A strange American Dream as Mary Lou and Leo create a team
On the frantic St Patrick’s Day circuit of breakfast briefings, lunch events and evening receptions, both leaders appeared to be reading off a single transferable speech honed and altered for a US audience
Sinn Féin Leader Mary Lou McDonald speaking to the media at the Ireland Funds 32nd National Gala, at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. Picture: PA
Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly may have received the loudest applause from Irish Americans this week but they weren’t the only unlikely tag -team in Washington promoting a unified political message.
Mary Lou McDonald’s rhetoric has become almost indistinguishable from that of Leo Varadkar and her trip to the US shows that.
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