First Minister Michelle O’Neill makes the most of her moment as Stormont Assembly recalled after two-year impasse. Sense of occasion felt throughout the Assembly Chamber as Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly acknowledged ‘ historic moment ’, with one lone dissenting TUV voice. Michelle O'Neill in the Great Hall at Stormont on Saturday, before she was named Northern Ireland's first-ever nationalist First Minister. Photograph: Oliver McVeigh/PA Wire.
It only took 20 seconds for Michelle O’Neill to make her way from the top of the staircase down to the Great Hall at Parliament Buildings and into the Assembly Chamber for Saturday’s recall, but she smiled every step of the way. Everyone else was already in the chamber; last to arrive were her fellow Sinn Féin MLAs, who swept in on the dot of 1pm. As O’Neill appeared, applause broke out among those watching on the balconies and in the hall itself; the First Minister in waiting gave a little wave of acknowledgment, a “good afternoon” to the waiting media and then, still with that broad smile on her face, she went to take her seat
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