Sinn Féin is on course to be the biggest party at Stormont after the party topped the first-preference vote with 29%, which will position its deputy leader, Michelle O’Neill, to become the region’s first minister – the first nationalist to hold the position. ‘Today represents a very significant moment of change,’ O’Neill said at a vote count in the town of Magherafelt
Sinn Féin set to be largest party in Northern Ireland assembly
Michelle O’Neill: centre stage for Sinn Féin’s prospective first minister