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...Michelle O’Neill of the pro-Irish unity Sinn Féin party became first minister, the first non-unionist to hold the post....
...If confirmed in the role, she may face criticism for being unelected: she was drafted into DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s seat while he remained an MP at Westminster....
...She was not elected to Stormont but was drafted into party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s seat while he remained an MP at Westminster....
...“Absolutely beautiful,” enthused Michelle O’Neill, Northern Ireland’s new first minister, hailing a “Peace Proms” concert by the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland last weekend....
...“If [DUP leader Sir] Jeffrey Donaldson does not change his approach, then this sitting may well be the final one of this assembly,” she said....
...In Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill the region has its first nationalist prime minister....
...“This task was about strengthening the union,” DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson told a news conference at Hillsborough Castle. “Our job now is about presenting the benefits of the union.”...
...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...
...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”....
...DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, whose party appointed the deputy first minister, said the financial package “doesn’t go far enough”....
...After the vote, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson signalled he would back a recall of Stormont on Saturday ending a near two-year boycott by his party....
...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”....
...Take a break from the news Five years have passed since Prince Andrew sat for the cameras of the BBC’s Newsnight to discuss his friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein....
...That he is far less celebrated than he merits is the premise behind George C Wolfe’s biopic Rustin, produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s company Higher Ground....
...Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the DUP’s leader, says that his party’s boycott of the Belfast executive ultimately proved its worth....
...Removing the block on the executive would see Sinn Féin leader Michelle O’Neill appointed first minister, a post that hitherto has belonged to a unionist....
...DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said his party’s “principled stance” has extracted concessions from London and Brussels under the Windsor framework....
...“This has strengthened Jeffrey’s hand,” said Alex Kane, a former communications director for the smaller Ulster Unionist party....
...DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson objects to some EU law remaining in place in Northern Ireland, which he says undermines the region’s status within UK and its internal market....
...“This is an outrageous and shameful attack,” tweeted Michelle O’Neill, first minister-designate for the nationalist Sinn Féin party....
...DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said he was “very pleased that our vote has held up”. Doug Beattie, leader of the UUP, said he was disappointed with the results....
...“We will be back again, we will do this again,” Michelle O’Neill, first minister-in-waiting, said after the failure to elect a speaker. “I’m not giving up.”...
...Jes Staley’s emails with Jeffrey Epstein revealed A cache of 1,200 emails exchanged by former Barclays chief executive Jes Staley and the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — including pictures...
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