Northern Ireland's new Prime Minister Michelle O'Neill hailed Saturday as
"a historic day"
and
"a new era"
for the British province with its bloody past after becoming the first republican in this position.
The leader of Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland, Michelle O'Neill, officially became the first republican local government leader on Saturday, i.e. in favor of the unification of Ireland, a historic turning point in the province British with a past marked by three decades of bloody conflict.
“This is a historic day and it represents a new era
,” declared Michelle O'Neill, speaking before the Local Assembly which had just appointed her to her post in Belfast, noting that it would have been
“unimaginable for the generation of (his) parents”
that a nationalist heads the local executive.