Sinn Féin emerged from the 2020 general election in pole position to challenge Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil and potentially win power next time around.
That did not happen, with support ebbing away as a series of events, both internal and external, shook the party’s confidence.
That is the picture painted by Siobhán Fenton, a journalist who worked in Sinn Féin’s press office from 2020 to 2024, in her book Ourselves Alone.
In today’s Inside Politics podcast, Hugh Linehan quizzes Fenton about why she took a job at Sinn Féin and what she learned about the inner workings of the largest and most successful all-Ireland political party.
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They look back on a series of missteps made by the party and its leader Mary Lou McDonald, including its response to the 2023 Dublin riots and McDonald’s misjudged policy on the price of housing, which she outlined in an interview with Pat Leahy on Inside Politics.
