Michelle O’Neill is poised for top job but Irish unity is unlikely to be, as she says, ‘within touching distance’
The elevation of Michelle O’Neill as Northern Ireland’s first minister will be a historic moment that breathes new life into the republican slogan “tiocfaidh ár lá” – “our day will come”.
The Sinn Féin deputy leader, a working-class republican, is expected on Saturday to take charge of a state that was designed in 1921 to enshrine a unionist majority in perpetuity, and that the IRA vowed to destroy.
