McDonald facing electoral tests that will shape her leadership
(World News Science)

Gerry Adams, white-haired and grandfatherly, was downstairs at the makeshift bookshop signing copies of his many titles while Mary Lou McDonald prepared for her televised leader´s address to the Sinn Féin ardfheis in Derry on Saturday night. She might be wondering how the old fox made it all look so easy. Turns out being leader of Sinn Féin - straddling North and South, holding the working class support while trying to break into the middle class - is trickier than it looks. McDonald was in New York last week, speaking to an adoring audience at the annual Friends of Sinn Féin dinner in New York. In the Millennium...