[Leica] IMG: Mary Lou McD

[Jim Nichols]

Nice work.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 11/3/2018 6:31 PM, Douglas Barry wrote:
> This is a photograph I took at the Dublin count for the Irish 
> Presidential election last weekend. Mary Lou McDonald was waiting to 
> explain her party's performance at an interview with RTE, the Irish 
> national TV broadcaster. I was positioned just beside the TV camera.
>
> She took over earlier this year from Gerry Adams as President of the 
> Sinn Féin party which is trying to shake off its old paramilitary IRA 
> associations by emphasizing its left wing and youth credentials. 
> Unfortunately, its choice as Presidential candidate Liadh Ni Riada 
> made some errors, as well as going up against Michael D. Higgins - the 
> popular poet and current President who was seeking re-election.
>
> As a result, Ni Riada garnered only a miserable fourth place with 6.8% 
> of the vote while the re-elected President Higgins got 55.8% and 
> romped home. We have him for another seven years for better or 
> verse... Anyway, Mary Lou knew she was going to get roasted in the 
> interview and her face reflects this anticipation.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Dublin/Mary+Lou+McD.jpg.html 
>
>
> Douglas
>
>
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