Did Mary Lou really have a go at public-sector workers?

There is more than enough in Sinn Féin’s real agenda to criticise without stirring up manufactured outrage

Mary Lou McDonald, the woman who would be taoiseach, at the RDS count centre in Dublin during the 2020 general election. Picture by Niall Carson

Eilis O'Hanlon

To listen to Mary Lou McDonald, one could be forgiven for thinking that Sinn Féin has a credible plan to reform the Irish public sector. It doesn’t. She doesn’t. Nobody does.

The only plan on offer across the political spectrum is to continue pouring money into the public sector in the hope that one day it reaches a magical tipping point where everything is fixed, while simultaneously making reassuring noises about the need for structural reform.