Arlene Foster has labelled some media coverage received by Sinn Féin's meeting of the newly crowned King Charles III as "intense" after he visited Northern Ireland earlier this week.
The former DUP leader said it was "not really big news" as Sinn Féin representatives have met the late Queen Elizabeth II and the new King when he was a Prince on "many occasions".
Writing in the Express, she said: "The coverage got so intense about Sinn Féin on some mainstream broadcasts that you would be forgiven for thinking the visit was about them and not marking the death of our sovereign and the first visit of her successor!"