Future will have to wait in N Ireland
For the first time in Northern Ireland’s history, a nationalist party is set to claim the most seats in a political system that was originally designed to guarantee a unionist majority.
For the first time in Northern Ireland’s history, a nationalist party is set to claim the most seats in a political system that was originally designed to guarantee a unionist majority.
For the first time, Sinn Fein, the Irish nationalist party, has won the largest number of seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Varadkar tendered his resignation as taoiseach, or premier, to President Michael Higgins after the first sitting of Ireland's lower house of parliament since an 8 February election which radically recast the political landscape.
Sinn Fein Leader Mary Lou McDonald announced on Friday that her party had decided to back the deal and would re-enter the assembly and nominate their ministers for the new government.
