Michelle O’Neill was never supposed to be here. When the Northern Ireland Assembly was established following the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ended 30 years of sectarian bloodshed known as ...

When she took over from Martin McGuinness as the new face of Sinn Fein, Michelle O'Neill was hailed as a clean break from the republican movement's blood-soaked old guard. With her loud outfits ...

Yet one is called a deputy, and here that matters. “Like with everything in Northern Ireland, having Michelle O’Neill as first minister is mostly symbolic,” said Matthew O’Toole ...