Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill is the first Irish Republican to lead Northern Ireland

Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill was today appointed First Minister of Northern Ireland. She is the first Irish Republican to occupy the position, left open for two years by a Unionist boycott of government that helped convince voters there to give Sinn Fein its first-ever working majority. — Read the rest
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