Sinn Féin’s White House boycott is a “manoeuvre” to set First Minister Michelle O’Neill up for an Irish presidential bid, the leader of the DUP has suggested.
On Friday, Sinn Féin announced that the party’s president Mary Lou McDonald and Ms O’Neill, the party’s vice-president, would not attend events in Washington, DC, as part of an annual tradition for St Patrick’s Day.
The party said it was taking a “principled stance” against US president Donald Trump’s “threat of mass expulsion” of Palestinians from Gaza.
It came after Mr Trump suggested Israel would turn Gaza over to the US for redevelopment into the “Riviera of the Middle East” – involving a…