Gareth Doris News Today

The 47-year-old has vowed to be a first minister for all and hailed a historic day as devolved government is expected to return in Northern Ireland following a two-year political collapse.

After tense talks DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said his party was ready to back a deal that will see Sinn Fein s Michelle ONeill installed as the first ever republican First Minister.

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has hailed the move as a key concession that will effectively scrap the contentious so-called Irish Sea border for goods.

Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill will make history as Northern Ireland’s first Irish republican First Minister after the DUP agreed to return to power-sharing at Stormont

Northern Ireland will get a new government after the DUP agreed to return to power-sharing at Stormont in a late night deal with the UK on post-Brexit trade checks

Michelle ONeill, Sinn Feins deputy president was branded a hypocrite for saying she would attend. Her republican party has been accused of preventing Unionists from celebrating the occasion.

When she took over from Martin McGuinness as the new face of Sinn Fein, Michelle ONeill was hailed as a clean break from the republican movements blood-soaked old guard.

Northern Ireland's new first minister-elect, Michelle O'Neill, says being a teenage mother made her the person she is.

Northern Ireland's newly elected Prime Minister, Michelle O'Neill, grew up on one of the most notorious battlefields of the Troubles.

Sinn Feins Michelle ONeill described this weeks vote as the election of a generation as it emerged the party would have a majority for the first time in the history of the country.