Mary Lou Mc Donald is the president of Irish political party Sinn Fein. With its roots in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Northern Ireland, it has often been criticised as representing Ireland's violent past, rather than a progressive future that Irish politics has tried to promote, south of the border, since The Troubles.

For this reason, it has been somewhat of an outlier in the Irish political landscape, until the snap General Election in February 2020.

Sinn Fein won a historic number of votes, across the island and demographics. Most people in Ireland gave Sinn Fein number one on the ballot paper.

It was a victory even the party didn't expect, they didn't run enough candidates to be able to govern alone.

 Although not in power now, the result represents a significant realignment of Irish politics and Sinn Fein are most certainly not the outlier anymore. 

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