O’Neill tells Sinn Féin ard fheis that ‘entrenched unionist majority is long gone’

Sinn Fein vice-president Michelle O’Neill during her keynote speech at the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis (Brian Lawless/PA)

Sinn Féin’s leader in Northern Ireland has told the party’s annual ard fheis conference that “the old orange state” with a unionist majority is “long gone”.

In her keynote speech, Michelle O’Neill said the results of last year’s Assembly elections must be “respected” as she criticised the Democratic Unionist Party and called for the restoration of powersharing in Northern Ireland.