Sinn Fein’s President Mary Lou McDonald (Niall Carson/PA)
Way back in 1927, Seán Lemass dubbed his fledgling Fianna Fáil party – then a Sinn Féin breakaway – “a slightly constitutional party” as they did a total U-turn and accepted the Oath of Allegiance to first enter the Dáil.
The phrase came instantly to mind listening to embattled Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald finally break her silence about the references issued by party staff to a former staffer now convicted of child sex offences.
