With Sinn Féin in first minister post, has the republicans’ day come at last?
by Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6JBQX)
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.
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