Leo is smarmy says Mary Lou
New sinn Fein leader’s interview jibe at taoiseach
SINN Fein’s new leader Mary Lou Mcdonald has accused Leo Varadkar of being “smarmy”.
She made the comments during an interview with Sky News yesterday.
Ms Mcdonald said: “Leo is kind of smarmy. You’ll have seen him in Number 10 talking about Love Actually and donning various pairs of socks. So, smarmy.”
Her jibe came less than a day after she replaced Gerry Adams as Sinn Fein president during a special party conference in Dublin on Saturday.
It is not the first time Ms Mcdonald and Mr
Varadkar have clashed.
In September the Taoiseach accused her of being “very cranky” and compared her to French far-right leader Marine Le Pen during ill-tempered exchanges in the Dail.
Ms Mcdonald said she was hopeful she would see a united Ireland within her lifetime as Sinn Fein chief.
She added: “I would be hopeful that in the course of my tenure as leader that, yes, we would secure a referendum on unity and we would win it. It’s doable.”
Ms Mcdonald described Brexit as
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an “absolute disaster” and said it was “mutually incompatible” with the Good Friday Agreement.
She added: “I sense a real resentment amongst Irish people that Ireland becomes collateral damage in a power play with the Tories.”
Ms Mcdonald said the bread-andbutter and political interests of Ireland “demand the entire island stay within the customs union and single market”. She added: “It is alarming to hear the mantra from London ‘we are gone, we are out’ with no sense of the consequence of that.”
With crisis talks due to resume at Stormont today aimed at restoring the power-sharing executive in the North, Ms Mcdonald said she was hopeful an agreement could be reached with the DUP.
She added: “I think we can do business with Arlene Foster.”
Mrs Mcdonald said issues remain to be resolved but said they are “nothing insurmountable”.