Pádraig MacLachlan

And I would feel happy and confident that we're in a very strong position to lead the opposition, to give people hope that it doesn't have to be a Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael government again the next time.

So my own view would be positive.

And I think that we just need to knuckle down, get on with the hard work over the next few years.

And then when it comes for the election, to give people hope that there is an alternative to what's there.

Absolutely not.

I mean, Mary Lou was elected as the leader only weeks ago at the Ardèche.

The only time, you know, you get the opportunity, it's the members that do that every year.

They elect the president and the vice president and the leadership of the party at the Ardèche.

So we just need to, as a collective leadership, it isn't one person, Mary Lou, it's a collective leadership of all of us.

She is the party leader.

She is indeed, and she's a very good party leader, but it's a collective leadership.

That's how we do things in Sinn Féin.

We work together as a team.

We take responsibilities, a bit like a football team, for every position on the pitch.

And then we present.

And, you know, I would feel happy where we are right now.

Obviously, in the by-elections, you'd like to win seats.

But overall, I feel we're strongly moving towards giving people that hope.

And it will be a broad left coalition.

No, no, Mary Lou, I mean, Mary Lou is, I mean, everybody knows she's one of the strongest political communicators on the island of Ireland.