Politics

Michelle O’Neill becomes first minister of northern Ireland: how Sinn Féin reinvented itself from IRA associations to realistic leftwing alternative

Sinn Fein vice-president Michelle O’Neill has been appointed as Northern Ireland’s first nationalist First Minister
Sinn Fein vice-president Michelle O’Neill has been appointed as Northern Ireland’s first nationalist First Minister (Liam McBurney/PA)
By Agnès Maillot Associate Professor, School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University