As Sinn Féin prepares for pivotal election, voters north and south ask what the party stands for

Irish Examiner political staff Aoife Moore and Elaine Loughlin run the rule over Sinn Féin's policies on a number of key issues

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald signs a copy of the 1916 Proclamation, with vice president Michelle O’Neill and Jemma Dolan during the party’s manifesto launch in Belfast. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA

POLITICS in the North is on the cusp of history on Thursday if the latest polling is anything to go by.

For the first time in 100 years, an election in the North may return a nationalist majority.