Defeated Sinn Féin TD reflects on tactical mistakes in Donegal
Next time Pádraig Mac Lochlainn will be paying more attention to northeast Donegal and his Inishowen base
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: “It’s painful but it’s not the end of the world. It’s about going back to basics”
Sinn Féin’s Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, after his defeat to Thomas Pringle in Donegal, learned two lessons from the axioms respectively attributed to the late US House of Representatives speaker Tip O’Neill and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
One, that all politics is local and, two, that whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.