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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Young

O’Neill urges PM to use peace deal’s 30th anniversary to announce unity poll

First Minister Michelle O’Neill during an interview with the PA news agency in Cookstown (Liam McBurney/PA) -

Michelle O’Neill has urged the UK Government to use the 30th anniversary of Northern Ireland’s historic Good Friday peace deal to announce a date for a referendum on Irish unification.

The Sinn Fein vice president, who is the first nationalist to hold the position of First Minister at Stormont, said the date in April 2028 would represent an “excellent time” to confirm a future poll.

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