Sinn Féin faithful hail Mary Lou McDonald as ‘taoiseach-in-waiting’ after bumper crop of candidates lined up for June elections

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Maeve McTaggart

Sinn Féin will field a record number of candidates in June in three elections, it was revealed yesterday in Dublin at a campaign launch where party leader Mary Lou McDonald was at one point introduced as the “taoiseach-in-waiting”.

While the party appeared to recently hit a hitch in the polls, that fact appears a mere blip when in a room of party supporters.