Colin Murphy: How Sinn Féin populism over Stardust holds ‘elites’ to account

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald. Photo: PA

Colin Murphy

Simon Harris and Mary Lou McDonald gave important, emotional speeches to the Dáil last week on the Stardust disaster.

But it was McDonald’s speech that was the more revealing — both of the truth of what happened in 1981, and of the shifting sands of Irish politics.