Taoiseach Micheál Martin should go to the White House on St Patrick’s Day, Mary Lou McDonald has said, but he should confront US president Donald Trump over his “dangerous” rhetoric on Gaza.

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Sinn Fein’s White House boycott is a “manoeuvre” to set First Minister Michelle O’Neill up for an Irish presidential bid, the leader of the DUP has suggested. On Friday, Sinn Fein announced that the party’s president Mary Lou McDonald and Ms O’Neill,

Sinn Fein’s leadership will not attend an event at the White House in “a principled stance against the threat of mass expulsion of the Palestinian people from Gaza”.The party’s president Mary Lou McDonald and Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill,

Mary Lou McDonald said they are taking“a principled stance against the threat of mass expulsion of the Palestinian people from Gaza”

Sinn Fein has defended its decision to boycott Washington DC for St Patrick’s Day amid criticism from political opponents across the island of Ireland. The party’s leadership, which normally travels to the US to mark the occasion every year,