Sinn Féin say they won’t attend US St Patrick’s Day celebrations

When power-sharing is functioning, it’s customized for the primary and deputy first ministers to make the journey to Washington DC.

In a video posted on the social media platform X, McDonald mentioned she had adopted the president’s feedback on Gaza with “rising concern” and had listened in “horror” to requires “mass expulsion of the Palestinian folks from their houses and the everlasting seizure of Palestinian lands”.

“Such an method is a basic breach of worldwide regulation, is deeply destabilising within the Center East and a harmful departure from the UN place of peace and safety for each Palestinians and Israelis and the precise of Palestinians to self-determination,” she added.

O’Neill mentioned Trump’s feedback on “compelled expulsion of the Palestinian folks of Gaza can’t be ignored”.

On X, previously Twitter, she mentioned that she is going to “proceed to interact with senior figures within the US for peace and financial development”.

“Sooner or later, when our kids and grandchildren ask us what we did whereas the Palestinian folks endured unimaginable struggling, I’ll say I stood firmly on the aspect of humanity,” she added.

Final week, SDLP chief Claire Hanna mentioned her social gathering would decline an invitation to the White Home over the president’s stance on Gaza.

She instructed NEWSTORN Radio Ulster’s Talkback programme that she couldn’t “in good conscience” attend as folks have made their hopes and fears for the Palestinian folks clear.

It’s the second 12 months in a row the social gathering have mentioned it might flip down an invite to St Patrick’s Day celebrations.

Democratic Unionist Celebration (DUP) meeting member David Brooks described the SDLP’s choice as a “petulant stunt”.