McDonald Hoping ‘Not Disclosing Fact Senator Was Sending Inappropriate Texts To Child To Protect Senator’s Mental Health’ A Big Vote Getter

SEEKING TO improve plunging party polling numbers, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has taken an unconventional approach to trying to appeal to voters.

“It’s a novel way of trying to win over voters, it might just be crazy enough to work,” said one political strategist of Sinn Féin failing to disclose to the Oireachtas or the public that Niall Ó Donnghaile resigned his position due to sending inappropriate texts to a teenager, and justifying the omission due to mental health concerns for the senator.

While Sinn Féin informed the PSNI and social services of the texts, McDonald defended the party issuing a statement praising Ó Donnghaile at the time of his resignation which made no mention of the texts.

“Ah gimme a fecking break. We’re down two PR people because they had to leave after writing job references for a sex offender, is it any wonder my explanation is only leading to more questions?” said a fed up McDonald.

A focus group pulled together by Sinn Féin to ascertain if only admitting to these things when caught out really resonates with voters looking for a viable alternative to the coalition has concluded ‘maybe don’t conceal the fact a senator was sending inappropriate texts to a 17-year-old’.

“I dunno, I think being up to their neck in shit like this and not being able to get their story straight proves they’re ready for government,” confirmed one former Fianna Fáil voter, now Sinn Féin convert.

Elsewhere, Fine Gael are said to be in a blind panic over fears the media could one day discover it is running a candidate for election in Louth who was on trial for assault, instructed in a civil court to pay his victim €39,000 and in a separate incident inserted a chocolate bar into the anus of an unconscious man in an ‘unsavoury prank‘.