BELFAST, United Kingdom: Sinn Fein leader Michelle O'Neill on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) acclaimed a "new era" for Northern Ireland as her Irish nationalist party handed a historic election defeat to pro-UK unionists who had monopolized power for decades.
Once the political wing of the paramilitary IRA, Sinn Fein won enough seats in the devolved legislature to nominate O'Neill as first minister — a century after Northern Ireland was carved out as a Protestant fiefdom under British rule.
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