Mary Lou McDonald
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Mary Louise McDonald is an Irish politician who has served as Leader of the Opposition in Ireland since June 2020, as President of Sinn Féin since February 2018, and as a Teachta Dála for the Dublin C
McDonald in 2025
McDonald's official European Parliament portrait, circa 2004
Mary Lou McDonald and Gerry Adams speaking in 2014
McDonald in 2018
Gerry Adams
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Gerard Adams is an Irish republican retired politician who was the president of Sinn Féin from 1983 to 2018. He was a Teachta Dála for Louth from 2011 to 2020 and a Member of the Northern Ireland Legi
Mary Lou McDonald
…MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 2004 to 2009. On 10 February 2018, following a special ardfheis (party conference) in Dublin, McDonald succeeded Gerry Adams to become Sinn Féin's first new leader since 1983 and the party's first female leader since Margaret Buckley (president from 1937 to 1950). She led the…
Adams in 2022
Adams wearing an Easter Lily (2008)
Adams at a commemoration in County Fermanagh (2001)
Adams with Martin McGuinness and Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin in 1997