Sinn Fein

The Prime Minister met political figures in Belfast today. One of them was the deputy leader of Sinn Fein, Michelle O’Neill.

Michelle O’Neill is the Deputy Leader of Sinn Féin and heads up the party in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Sinn Fein’s Conor Murphy says there are “unanswered questions” around a £425,000 donation to the pro-Brexit campaign.

After a major political shock in Northern Ireland’s assembly elections, fraught negotiations are under way to form an administration.

Gary Gibbon on the positions of the parties in Stormont and the British Government.

They’ve lost the election – but Sinn Fein have hailed last night’s result as a “watershed moment” in Northern Ireland politics. The republicans came within one seat of the Democratic Unionist Party and have – for the first time – prevented the unionists having a majority at Stormont. Under the rules of the Northern Ireland…