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Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill hails 'momentous' election results and calls for DUP to return to powersharing

Ms O’Neill said the boycott of the Stormont Assembly by the DUP “cannot go on”.

Belfast Live

Sinn Fein emerges as largest party at end of marathon council elections count

The final of 462 council seats across Northern Ireland was filled shortly after midnight on Sunday.

The Independent UK

Sinn Fein’s Northern Ireland election success adds to pressure on DUP

Sinn Fein has become the biggest party in Northern Ireland’s local government for the first time ever, a historic victory that will heap pressure on the Democratic Unionist Party to end its Brexit-linked boycott of the region’s power-sharing government.

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NI council elections 2023: Sinn Fein becomes largest party in Northern Ireland local government

The counting across 11 council areas in Northern Ireland is nearing completion

Evening Standard

O’Neill hails ‘momentous’ result as party becomes largest in local government

The counting across 11 council areas in Northern Ireland is nearing completion.

The Independent UK

Call for ‘greater co-operation’ to maximise unionist vote in elections

Leaders have raised concerns about the number of unionists who are not voting.

The Independent UK

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson confident of ‘further progress’ on protocol

He said the DUP has polled well in the local government elections giving them a mandate for their stance on Stormont.

The Independent UK

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Sinn Féin becomes biggest party in local government in Northern Ireland

Nationalist party made sweeping gains including unprecedented breakthroughs in Down and Antrim

The Guardian - UK

Council election results overshadowed by question of when Stormont will return

Sinn Fein is on course to replicate its success in last year’s Assembly elections, and become the largest party at council level.

The Independent UK

Sinn Fein local elections success ‘sends message’ that Stormont must return

SINN Fein president Mary Lou McDonald has said her party’s success in Northern Ireland’s local government elections is a message from the people…

The National (Scotland)

Sinn Fein makes strong start as local government election votes counted

The party led the way with the most number of representatives elected on the first day of the count on Friday.

The Independent UK

DUP candidate 'threatened' at polling station as counting in NI local elections gets underway

Dawn Higgins was 'verbally threatened and had leaflets torn from her hand' during the Northern Ireland local elections, DUP party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has claimed.

Irish Mirror

DUP candidate threatened and told to leave polling station – Jeffrey Donaldson

The party said Dawn Huggins, a Causeway Coast and Glens candidate, had leaflets ripped from her hand and was told she was not welcome in the area

Belfast Live

Brexit to the fore again in Northern Ireland local elections

Northern Ireland holds elections to local councils on Thursday that the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is pitching as an opportunity to bolster its call for further concessions from Britain on a revised post-Brexit trade deal.

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The Independent UK

Government ‘committed’ to ensuring NI can trade freely with rest of the UK

The Deputy Prime Minister was responding to a question from DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson in the House of Commons.

Belfast Live

Restoring Stormont 'main issue' for most voters in NI council election, poll suggests

All 462 council seats are being contested across 80 district electoral areas covering Northern Ireland's 11 councils

Belfast Live

Peter Robinson says Government will be watching DUP council vote share

On Friday, Sir Jeffrey told the PA News Agency that the reason Sinn Fein won the last assembly election is “because of unionist splits and divisions”

Belfast Live

Asylum seekers need respect but issues with 'open-border policy', DUP's Jeffrey Donaldson says

Sir Jeffrey set out his party's approach following questions after a unionist-majority council rejected funding for asylum seekers and refugees

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Belfast Live

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson defends Belfast election candidate who represented UDA-linked group

Sir Jeffrey said he had "no knowledge" of whether the DUP candidate had been involved in a Twitter account which was known for sending trolling and derogatory messages

The Independent UK

Michelle O’Neill reiterates plea to DUP to return to Stormont Assembly

The Sinn Fein vice president was speaking after Sir Jeffrey Donaldson insisted his party’s position is not weakening.

Belfast Live

DUP will not 'weaken' stance on Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol, Jeffrey Donaldson says

"Some said after the Assembly elections that we would weaken our position. It was a lie then and it is a lie now"

The Independent UK

DUP ‘not weakening its stance on Stormont’, vows Sir Jeffrey Donaldson

He was addressing his party’s manifesto launch in Belfast ahead of next week’s council elections.

The Independent UK

James Nesbitt: All NI political parties attending coronation is sign of progress

Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O’Neill and DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson were among the world leaders who were on the guest list.

Belfast Live

DUP candidate Darren Leighton informed by PSNI of a death threat against him

"I know that those behind this threat do not represent the vast majority of people of the Botanic area"

Belfast Live

Northern Ireland poll suggests support for DUP is up

Jeffrey Donaldson says findings show his party is “closing the gap and building support in our continuing opposition to the protocol”

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