IT must be exhausting trying to be everything to everyone.

Thankfully for Mary Lou McDonald, her shift in this particular charade is almost over.

In recent weeks, any remaining credentials the party had with their left-wing, progressive and younger base in the Republic have surely been done away with.

It’s hard to know where to start, but given this is The Irish News, the most pertinent would probably be that the Sinn Féin leader failed to take an opportunity to condemn internment.

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Internment without trial, that ruined lives and communities in our home place, stole lifetimes from men and boys for no other crime than being nationalists, and stole entire lives in the conflict it created, no doubt extending the Troubles. A lot of readers will remember it well.

During the ongoing Dublin Central by-election campaign, celebrity criminal candidate Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch suggested he would like to intern another vulnerable population without trial.

On “illegal” immigrants, Hutch said: “I think they should be all interned.

“They should be put in the Curragh camp, in camps, until they’re sorted. Fed, and not given any money, not given any........

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