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...In a dig at any suggestion she had a lesser role, Little-Pengelly hailed the nomination of “Michelle and myself as First Ministers”....
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...First minister-designate Michelle O’Neill of Sinn Féin will be sworn in when the 90-member Stormont Assembly is recalled at 1pm, two years to the day after the Democratic Unionist Party triggered its collapse...
...Michelle O’Neill of the pro-Irish unity Sinn Féin party became first minister, the first non-unionist to hold the post....
...That saw Michelle O’Neill of pro-Irish unity party Sinn Féin become first minister — making history as the first nationalist to hold the post in a region created for unionists in 1921 in a move whose symbolism...
...The executive’s return, led for the first time by a nationalist first minister from the pro-Irish unity Sinn Féin party, Michelle O’Neill, means London is ready to unlock a promised £3.3bn financial package...
...Marc FilippinoJude Webber is the FT’s Ireland correspondent. Thanks, Jude. Jude WebberThank you....
...New first minister Michelle O’Neill, a “proud republican” who wants a referendum on ending partition within a decade, insists her priority is ensuring that Northern Ireland prospers....
...First Minister Michelle O’Neill said in a statement that the way the executive was funded needed to change, adding that she would be “strongly pressing that point” when she and other political leaders met...
...Michelle O’Neill, Northern Ireland’s first minister-in-waiting from the pro-Irish unity Sinn Féin party, called the UK government’s U-turn “bizarre”....
...The party remains by far the most popular political grouping in Ireland and made history in Northern Ireland last month when Michelle O’Neill became the first nationalist first minister in a region designed...
...Michelle O’Neill, first minister designate from the pro-Irish unity Sinn Féin party, which is now the biggest on both sides of the Irish border, said the moment underscored “the change that’s happening across...
...Michelle O’Neill, vice-president of the region’s largest party, Sinn Féin, made history a month ago by becoming the first nationalist first minister in a region created in 1921 to have a permanent pro-UK...
...On Wednesday, it again blocked a bid to recall Stormont, prompting First Minister-designate Michelle O’Neill from Sinn Féin, the nationalist party that is now the region’s largest, to warn that political...
...He will meet Michelle O’Neill, who made history on Saturday by becoming the first nationalist to hold the post of first minister of a region created by partition in 1921 and intended to remain as a pro-UK...
...Michelle O’Neill, Northern Ireland’s first minister, whose nationalist Sinn Féin party was long considered the paramilitaries’ mouthpiece, told reporters: “We all know the IRA have left the stage.”...
...Jude Webber Oh, they are definitely asking for more. They are already. It’s really, really hard to predict whether it will stay up....
...Michelle O’Neill will become the first pro-Irish unity nationalist first minister in a region partitioned from the rest of the island more than a century ago for the then protestant unionist majority....
...First Minister-designate Michelle O’Neill from Sinn Féin called it a “day of optimism”....
...First minister-designate Michelle O’Neill of the nationalist Sinn Féin party, which is now the biggest in Northern Ireland, said she feared the region’s political institutions were now “in free-fall”....
...Something properly historic happened in Brexitland last Saturday: Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill was sworn in as first minister of Northern Ireland....
...Michelle O’Neill, Northern Ireland’s first minister-in-waiting from Sinn Féin, urged voters to “send a signal” to the DUP to end its veto of the political institutions....
...“Historic change is happening and Sinn Féin is leading that change right across Ireland,” Michelle O’Neill, the party’s first minister-in-waiting, said in a statement after her party became the biggest in...
...Michelle O’Neill, Sinn Féin’s first-minister-in-waiting, called over the weekend for ministers from the UK and Republic of Ireland to meet “as a matter of urgency” to help restore the power-sharing institutions...
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