Michelle O'Neill, first minister of Northern Ireland, pictured in front of Stormont.
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O'Neill has pledged to represent ‘Catholics, Protestants and dissenters’ but has made plain that she sees that as compatible with a referendum on Irish unity within a decade.
DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson speaks to the media.
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Northern Ireland has been without a government since the executive collapsed in February 2022.
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The main stumbling block to Middle East peace is the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
British soldiers stand behind barbed wire in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1970. Critics of the new law say it will not aid reconciliation and risks deepening divisions.
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Opponents of the U.K. government’s Northern Ireland Troubles Act argue it violates the Good Friday Agreement by denying victims their right to justice.
Michelle O'Neill will attend the coronation.
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Sinn Féin refuses to sit in the Westminster parliament because that would mean recognising the British crown. Here’s why the coronation is a different matter.
Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness pictured before the peace agreement was reached.
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Secret, behind-the-scenes talks were going on years before the official Belfast Agreement was signed – and made the whole thing possible.
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The death of Queen Elizabeth will not weaken the attachment of Northern Ireland’s unionists to Britain. But it is a morale blow at a time of political uncertainty.
Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald (left) celebrates with John O'Dowd, MLA for Upper Bann, and Michelle O'Neill, who will be the new first minister at Stormont.
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Sinn Fein’s win does not reflect a surge in support but rather other factors including the divisions in unionism.
However you get there, just get there.
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What’s happening in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales this Thursday.
Sinn Fein’s Deputy Leader Michelle O'Neill out on the campaign trail.
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Northern Ireland is preparing for a potentially seismic election on May 5.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald (c) with former leader Gerry Adams on the Irish border.
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How Sinn Féin’s position on the EU has shifted.
Sinn Fein generated a powerful story that they are the party that represents working people against the privileged.
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A short history of Ireland’s political economy explains Sinn Fein’s surge in popularity.
Sinn Féin president Mary-Lou McDonald celebrates victory in her Dublin constituency.
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Why left-wing nationalist party Sinn Féin topped the popular vote in the Irish election.
DUP leader Arlene Foster keeps a watchful eye over Nigel Dodds, her man in Westminster.
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The contests in this part of the UK are so unique that they are rarely included in national polling. And this year is no exception.
Abstentionist Irish rebel MP Countess Markievicz, centre, on the night she was released from prison in 1919.
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Irish Republican, socialist, suffragette and revolutionary, Countess Constance Markievicz was a fearsome politician who was the true first female member of the British parliament.
Orangemen on the march.
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Many voters in Northern Ireland are tired of the sectarian stranglehold of Sinn Fein and the DUP – and the ‘others’ are gaining ground.
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New research reveals that changes in attitudes led to Sinn Féin’s landslide victory – not the new surge of young voters.
Women MPs take to the terrace of the House of Commons in 1931.
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It’s 100 years since women won the right to be MPs, but what was Parliament like for women back then?
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Belgium held the previous record with 541 days without a government. What’s holding up power-sharing?
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The only way forward is a more inclusive unionism that reflects the diverse and multicultural nature of the UK.