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Patience with DUP Stormont veto has run out, says Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill

The DUP has been blocking powersharing for more than a year in protest at the internal UK trade barriers created by Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol

Sinn Féin vice president Michelle O’Neill

Patience has run out with the DUP’s blockade of the Stormont Assembly, Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O’Neill has said.

O’Neill said she now wanted to see a plan from the UK and Irish governments on how to restore the powersharing institutions in Northern Ireland.

The DUP has been blocking powersharing for more than a year in protest at the internal UK trade barriers created by Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol.

The party says the deal ...