Sinn Féin becomes biggest party in local government in Northern Ireland
by Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent from on (#6BTKE)
Nationalist party made sweeping gains including unprecedented breakthroughs in Down and Antrim
Sinn Fein has become the biggest party in Northern Ireland local government after stunning gains in council elections.
It swept past the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) and became the first nationalist party to hold the most council seats, delivering a political and psychological blow to unionism.
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