Michelle O'Neill

2022 - 5 - 7

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Michelle O'Neill: centre stage for Sinn Féin's prospective first minister (The Guardian)

Yet almost three decades later, O'Neill, now 45, is on the verge of making history as the first nationalist leader of Northern Ireland. Personable and cheerful, ...

When the Guardian asked O’Neill about making history as the region’s first nationalist leader, she stayed on message and spoke of a need to to “stand up for everybody” and fix the health service. “She’s not the person who sets Sinn Féin policy on a wide range of issues. Mary Lou McDonald, a member of the Irish parliament in Dublin, succeeded Gerry Adams as the party’s overall leader. Deirdre Heenan, a social policy professor at the University of Ulster, said suspicions would endure. She was born Michelle Doris into a prominent republican family at the height of the Troubles. Her father, Brendan Doris, was an IRA prisoner. “It was shrewd of Martin to pick a working-class woman with republican credentials. But winning the more prestigious title is a psychological breakthrough for Irish nationalism and a gut-punch to unionism. She has come on leaps and bounds from when she first started.” There is no short-term prospect of a border poll for a united Ireland, let alone victory in such a referendum. Most people in Northern Ireland wish to remain in the UK. Nor would O’Neill becoming first minister signify radical change. In May 1993, as the IRA edged towards the end of its armed campaign, Michelle O’Neill was beginning her own struggle. As the biggest party it can nominate her for first minister.

WATCH: Michelle O'Neill celebrates Mid Ulster Win (Derry Now)

Sinn Féin's vice president, Michelle O'Neill, claimed victory yesterday in Mid Ulster when she was elected on the first count. Ms O'Neill sailed pas...

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Michelle O'Neill's rise from councillor to First Minister as Sinn Fein ... (Belfast Live)

A Sinn Fein triumph in the Stormont Assembly election 2022 means it is now the biggest party in Northern Ireland for the first time.

The Executive was left unable to fully function in February of this year when Mr Givan resigned in protest over the state of the Northern Ireland protocol, toppling Ms O'Neill as deputy first minister. When Martin McGuinness resigned as deputy first minister in January 2017 over the DUP's handling of the RHI scandal, it led to three years of political stalemate at Stormont. A Sinn Fein triumph in the Stormont Assembly election 2022 means it is now the biggest party in Northern Ireland for the first time.

Michelle O'Neill: from pregnant schoolgirl to Northern Ireland's next ... (The Times)

Although O'Neill, 45, was the first person without a direct IRA past to lead Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland, her family history is steeped in the armed fight.

Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill says 'it's time for real change' as she is ... (Daily Mail)

Sinn Fein's First Minister-elect has said it is 'time for real change' as she is poised to make history as the first nationalist leader of Northern Ireland.

She was quickly promoted to minister for agriculture in 2011. She was first elected to represent Mid Ulster in the 2007 assembly vote. It is suspected a double agent within the IRA had tipped off the security services. Mrs O'Neill's father, too, was an IRA member. The people are right.' And the family of the deputy leader of Sinn Fein were deeply involved in the clashes in East Tyrone. The people can't wait. Set to be Northern Ireland's First Minister, the woman steeped in IRA history: Michelle O'Neill was brought up in one of the most notorious battlegrounds of the Troubles and her cousin was one of three IRA men killed in a 1991 SAS ambush If Sinn Finn emerges victorious, it will be entitled to the post of first minister in Belfast for the first time since Northern Ireland was founded as a Protestant-majority state in 1921. Pictured: Sinn Fein's First Minister-elect Michelle O'Neill (above) has said it is 'time for real change' as she is poised to make history as the first nationalist leader of Northern Ireland Michelle O'Neill has led Sinn Fein to a momentous victory as it is set to become the country's biggest party for the first time in history in an election for the Stormont assembly. Sinn Fein's First Minister-elect has said it is 'time for real change' as she is poised to make history as the first nationalist leader of Northern Ireland.

Assembly election result ushers in new era: Michelle O'Neill (expressandstar.com)

Ulster Unionist leader Doug Beattie was elected in Upper Bann despite earlier fears he could lose his seat. In her declaration speech in Magherafelt ...

“People are going to the likes of the Alliance Party in droves because they’re being turned off by that angry, negative unionism.” He said: “I am from Upper Bann, I have had to make unpopular decisions in the direction of the party as party leader and that may well have had an effect on me, but these are the sort of things you go through all the time when you’re thinking about an election. “The party officers will sit down, we will consider what we need to do now to get the action that is required from the Government, I will be making my decision clear on all of that early next week,” he told the BBC. “I think given all the challenges that we face, if we squander this opportunity people will not forgive us, so we need to get in there.” “Today ushers in a new era which I believer presents us all with an opportunity to reimagine relationships in this society on the basis of fairness, on the basis of equality and the basis of social justice. She said: “We went to the electorate based on a record of strong delivery in the last two-and-a-half years.