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Mary Lou Mcdonald - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Mary Lou Mcdonald
- Mary Louise McDonald (born 1 May 1969) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has served as the Leader of Sinn Féin since February 2018.
- She has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Central constituency since the 2011 general election.
- She previously served as Deputy Leader of Sinn Féin from 2009 to 2018 and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 2004 to 2009.On 10 February 2018, McDonald succeeded longtime party leader Gerry Adams after a special ardfheis (party conference) in Dublin.
- To date, the party under her leadership has stood in two major elections; the 2019 European Parliament election in Ireland, where the party lost 2 MEPs and dropped their vote share by 7.8% and the 2019 Irish local elections, where the party lost 78 (almost half) of their local councillors and dropped their vote share by 5.68%.
