Mary Lou McDonald, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mary Lou McDonald

Irish politician

Date of Birth: 01-May-1969

Place of Birth: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Profession: politician

Nationality: Ireland, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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Mary Louise McDonald (born 1 May 1969) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has served as the Leader of Sinn Féin since February 2018.
She has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Central constituency since the 2011 general election.
She previously served as Deputy Leader of Sinn Féin from 2009 to 2018 and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 2004 to 2009.On 10 February 2018, McDonald succeeded longtime party leader Gerry Adams after a special ardfheis (party conference) in Dublin.
To date, the party under her leadership has stood in two major elections; the 2019 European Parliament election in Ireland, where the party lost 2 MEPs and dropped their vote share by 7.8% and the 2019 Irish local elections, where the party lost 78 (almost half) of their local councillors and dropped their vote share by 5.68%.