Pádraig MacLachlan

But in fairness, once the decision was made, everybody get in behind Janice.

And in fairness to her, she put in a real mighty effort.

She came second overall.

She was close to being top of the poll in the first count.

So when you have a by-election...

It creates its own dynamic.

I think for us, we would look towards the general election.

The general election will be about the big picture, will be about, you know, the type of economy, fairness, cost of living, housing and health.

They're going to be the big issues at the next general election.

Yeah, I mean, for sure, we will continue to work at that, but we won't agree on everything.

I mean, we're a Republican Party.

We're on the left.

We want strong public services.

We want people to have affordable housing, affordable health care, affordable education.

That's our policy.

We won't agree with our political parties on everything.

But I think there's a broad alliance there, and I think that we can present that to the people in the next general election.

Well, I mean, I think that's, you know, my own strong view is that if you look at the opinion polls over the last while, Sinn Féin have been at the top of them at the national level.

I have to say that as the Sinn Féin whip, chief whip that works with all of our spokespersons, works with everybody across the front bench, I think we have a really talented team.

It's a collective leadership team.