Northern Ireland lawmakers elected Irish nationalist Michelle O'Neill as first minister on Saturday a landmark event in a province established more than a century ago to ensure that pro-British unionists would never lose their grip on power.
The 47-year-old O'Neill had been first minister-designate since May 2022, when Sinn Fein emerged as the largest party in elections for the 90-seat Northern Ireland Assembly.
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