Irish election: McDonald says ‘bad practice’ to exclude Sinn Féin

Fianna Fáil, who have returned with the most seats after Friday’s election with 48 TDs, have already ruled out any potential government with Sinn Féin.

McDonald said the Fianna Fáil leader is excluding hundreds of thousands of voters adding that she will call Martin in the coming days.

“I think it is bad practice for Micheál Martin to completely disregard Sinn Féin, given the scale of the mandate that we have, I think that’s wrong,” she said.

“It’s no skin off any of our noses, I can assure you, but for the hundreds of thousands of people who vote for this party, who support this party, who want this party to get to work for them and to make a change in their lives, Micheál Martin’s position lands very, very badly with all of those people, and he should be aware of that.”