Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald has described being left out of discussions with the British government on the Northern Ireland protocol as 'petulant nonsense'.
She was asked not to attend a meeting with Foreign Secretary James Cleverly yesterday, despite having previously engaged with the British government in the past.
She has written to the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak seeking a meeting.
Mary Lou McDonald says the decision to exclude her was bizarre.
"They seemed to cite later in the day some concern about protocol - because I'm elected in Dublin that they couldn't meet with me until they met with the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
"However as the Irish Government has made very very clear, there were no protocol concerns whatsoever, so not alone was their decision bizarre, it was also very unsettling."
