Elaine Loughlin: Sinn Féin's 'media agenda' works both ways

TD Chris Andrews' decision to initiate legal action against a newspaper and journalist puts further spotlight on Sinn Féin’s relationship with the media

President of Sinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald  arriving at the party's Ard Fheis at the Athlone Institute of Technology. Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

Politicians and political journalists spend a lot of time in proximity at Leinster House.

In this shared workspace, we walk the same corridors, eat at adjoining — or sometimes the same — table in the Dáil canteen, and most politicians have at least one journalist they give information to, for their own or the public’s interests.