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By Christy Parker | Photos by Michael Hussey (YoughalOnline.com)
Mary Lou McDonald MEP signs the visitors book at the council chambers with Cllr. Michelle Hennessy and Town Clerk Liam Ryan with (standing) local Sinn Fein members: Sheila Whyte, Mark Morrison, Thelma Reilly, Linda and Mary Anne Regan.
Sinn Fein MEP Mary Lou McDonald ignored the parking space reserved outside the Town Council offices Hall for her Youghal visit and availed of the nearby car park instead. It may have been unintentionally symbolic but Ms. McDonald’s demeanour very much pronounced her a woman of the people as she greeted supporters in casual, chatty style. Not that there were many people about, common or otherwise, with just a handful of constituents accompanying SF Town councillors Sandra McLellan and Michelle Hennessy.
Wrapped in a pitch-black coat offset by a healthy complexion, the articulate Dublin Central politician was on the Cork leg of a nation wide mission to decry the impending Lisbon Treaty on which Ireland is the sole EU country holding a referendum. The EU says it won’t recognise a Read more
