Politics
‘The days of second class citizenship are gone’: Michelle O’Neill hails a historic day
Powersharing returned to Northern Ireland with Sinn Féin as the biggest party, and unionists splits over the decision to restore the assembly
Business at the Northern Ireland Assembly reconvened on a day when Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill became the first nationalist first minister following a two-year political collapse.
MLAs took their seats in the Assembly chamber at Stormont for a sitting where ministers were appointed to a powersharing executive, bringing an end to the impasse.
O’Neill walked into assembly chamber between the portraits of Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley, after pledging to be a “first minister for ...
