With Sinn Féin in first minister post, has the republicans’ day come at last?

Michelle O'Neill has taken the top job but Irish unity is unlikely to be within touching distance'

The elevation of Michelle O'Neill as Northern Ireland's first minister is a historic moment that breathes new life into the republican slogan tiocfaidh ar la" - our day will come".

The Sinn Fein deputy leader, a working-class republican, has taken charge of a state that was designed in 1921 to enshrine a unionist majority in perpetuity, and that the IRA vowed to destroy.