We were delighted to be rejoined in the tortoise shack by Sinn Féin Leader, Mary Lou McDonald. We discussed the latest Covid changes, the failures in strategy, her Party's position on Zero Covid and vaccine inequality typified by the Beacon Hospital controversy.

We also discussed the practical steps she would like to see beginning now in terms of Irish unity and what that might look like. We get into Sinn Féin's abstention in the recent reproductive rights vote in NI, we touch on some aspects of the media and their positions regarding herself and we ask about the prospect of an early election.

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