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 stated she had adopted the president’s feedback on Gaza with “rising concern” and had listened in “horror” to requires “mass expulsion of the Palestinian individuals from their properties and the everlasting seizure of Palestinian lands”.

“Such an strategy is a elementary 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 correct of Palestinians to self-determination,” she added.

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

On X, previously Twitter, she stated that she’s 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 individuals endured unimaginable struggling, I’ll say I stood firmly on the facet of humanity,” she added.

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

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

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

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