SINN Féin may have a new leader in the next five years, TD Eoin Ó Broin has suggested.
Speaking at the MacGill Summer School in Glenties, Co Donegal, the Dublin Mid-West TD rejected suggestions leader Gerry Adams is hindering the party's development.
“Will Sinn Fein change the leader of our party? Yes we will,” Mr Ó Broin, a former Belfast councillor, said on Monday.
"Is it going to happening the next year or two? I don't think so. Is it likely to happen in the next five years? I think that's quite possible.”
His remarks came as the chairman of a branch in Co Cavan made an unprecedented call for Mr Adams to retire.
Co Tyrone man Thomas Anthony McNulty (67), who heads the party's Virginia Mullagh cumann, claimed there is a "groundswell of opinion" that the Louth TD should no longer lead the party.
