Sinn Féin will 'defend, but not renegotiate' Good Friday Agreement, says Michelle O’Neill

Delivering a speech at the Europa Hotel, Sinn Féin’s Stormont leader described the DUP’s collapse of the Northern Ireland powersharing Executive as 'political vandalism'

Michelle O’Neill said more than half of her party candidates in the May 5 election would be female (Brian Lawless/PA)

Sinn Féin will defend but not renegotiate the Good Friday Agreement, the party’s vice president Michelle O’Neill has said.

Speaking at an election launch event in Belfast city centre, Ms O’Neill said those who “hanker for the past need to realise that there is no going back, only forward”.