Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald and deputy Michelle O'Neill announced they would boycott St Patrick's Day festivities in the US. McDonald cited Donald Trump's controversial comments regarding Palestinians and the Gaza Strip as a key reason for their absence. She urged Taoiseach Micheál Martin to address Trump directly on these remarks, emphasizing the potential dangers of Trump's rhetoric. While Sinn Féin's leadership will not attend, some members will still be present in the US for other engagements, highlighting a strategic decision amid political tensions.
"A call, a threat for expulsion, possession of the Gaza Strip to develop it into something else for Palestinian people to find refuge...that is extremely dangerous, and it represents a marked escalation in the very complex conflict situation for the Palestinian people."
"We absolutely believe that [Mr. Martin] needs to go and, furthermore, when there, set out unambiguously the Irish position in respect to all of these matters and to push back directly against any threat or goal for the mass expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, the annexation of that land."
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