Letters to the Editor: Adams says Palestinians ‘won’t mind’ SF’s US visit 

Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams says the Palestinian people won’t mind if Mary Lou McDonald goes to join in the celebrations in the US. Really? They must indeed be very understanding people. Picture: Conor McCabe Photography

While the Irish politicians’ annual trot to the White House on St Patrick’s Day is, at the best of times, a cringeworthy display of Shamroguery, it has never seemed as obscene as the prospect of this year’s visits.

Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams says the Palestinian people won’t mind if Mary Lou McDonald goes to join in the celebrations. Really? With 26,000 slaughtered, 70,000 wounded, 10,000 missing; women having C-sections and children amputations without anaesthesia, and menstruating women reduced to using strips of material torn from tents to make sanitary pads, they must indeed be very understanding people.