Historic moment as Michelle O'Neill becomes Northern Ireland's first minister

Northern Ireland’s devolved government has reconvened at Stormont and appointed Michelle O’Neill as first minister in a historic moment for Sinn Féin and Irish nationalism. O’Neill, Sinn Féin’s deputy leader, became first minister in accordance with a May 2022 assembly election in which the republican party overtook the DUP as the biggest party, a seismic symbolic and psychological shift.

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