{"id":264196,"date":"2025-07-14T12:21:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264196\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T12:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:21:19","slug":"mary-lou-mcdonald-sinn-fein-leader-tells-good-morning-britain-northern-ireland-makes-no-economic-sense-in-unity-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264196\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Lou McDonald: Sinn Fein leader tells Good Morning Britain Northern Ireland \u2018makes no economic sense\u2019 in unity plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sinn Fein Leader Mary Lou McDonald\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/26d05da1-8700-4dbc-be1c-4fc217757535.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Sinn Fein Leader Mary Lou McDonald<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has told a UK TV audience that Northern Ireland \u2018makes no economic sense\u2019 as she called for a border poll within the next five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ms McDonald made her case for the reunification of the island of Ireland as she fielded questions on Good Morning Britain on Monday morning regarding NI\u2019s economic state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sinn Fein Leader Mary Lou McDonald Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has told a UK TV audience&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[61928,748,393,4884,680,1144,712,11528,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-264196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-border-poll","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-mary-lou-mcdonald","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-sinn-fein","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114851563765982398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}