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Michelle O'Neill ( Doris; born 10 January 1977) is an Irish politician who has been First Minister of Northern Ireland since February 2024 and Vice President of Sinn Féin since 2018. She has also been the MLA for Mid Ulster in the
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since 2007. O'Neill was previously deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2020 to 2022. O'Neill served on the
Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council (, Ulster Scots dialects, Ulster Scots: ''Rathgannon an Sooth Owenslanngh Cooncil'') was a local council in Northern Ireland from 1973 until 2015. It was originally named Dungannon District Council, gai ...
from 2005 to 2011. In
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, she was elected to represent Mid Ulster in the
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. She served as the first female Mayor of Dungannon and South Tyrone from 2010 to 2011. She has been serving as Vice President of Sinn Féin since 2018. In 2011, she was appointed to the
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by deputy First Minister
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as Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development. In 2016, she was promoted to
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. In January 2020, she became deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland after the
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agreement restored the power-sharing executive. O'Neill automatically relinquished her office following
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's resignation as first minister on 3 February 2022. Sinn Féin became the largest party after the 2022 Assembly election, putting O'Neill in line for the position of First Minister of Northern Ireland; however she did not take up the position until two years later because the
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(DUP) refused to nominate a deputy First Minister, citing its opposition to the
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. On 3 February 2024, O'Neill was appointed First Minister of Northern Ireland. This marked the first time that an
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had held the title of First Minister in Northern Ireland.


Early life

O'Neill was born in
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, a town in
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,
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. She comes from an
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family in Clonoe,
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,
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. Her father Brendan Doris was a
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prisoner and
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councillor. Her uncle Paul Doris is a former national president of the Irish Northern Aid Committee (NORAID). A cousin, Tony Doris, was one of three IRA members killed in an ambush by the Special Air Service in 1991. Another cousin, alleged IRA
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Gareth Malachy Doris, was shot and wounded during the 1997 Coalisland attack. O'Neill attended St. Patrick's Girls' Academy, a
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in
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, Tyrone. She subsequently began to train as an accounting technician, before pursuing a political career.


Political career


Early career

O'Neill became involved in republican politics in her teens, assisting her father with constituency work in his role as a Dungannon councillor. She joined Sinn Féin after the
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in 1998, at the age of 21, and started working as an advisor to
Francie Molloy Francis Joseph Molloy (; born 16 December 1950) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who was the abstentionist Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Ulster from 2013 to 2024. He was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Mid Ulster fr ...
in the
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. She kept this role until 2005, when she was elected to represent the Torrent electoral area on
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, taking the seat which had been vacated by her father. O'Neill was elected as an MLA for Mid Ulster in the 2007 Assembly election, succeeding her Sinn Féin colleague Geraldine Dougan. While a
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in the Assembly, she sat on Stormont's education and health committees. In 2010, she became Mayor of Dungannon and South Tyrone. O'Neill was the first woman to hold the position of Mayor, as well as one of the youngest people. She held the council position until 2011.


Ministerial roles

O'Neill succeeded Michelle Gildernew as Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development in the
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after the 2011 Assembly election. One of her key decisions in the role was the relocation of the
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's headquarters from Belfast to a former British Army barracks in
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in a bid to decentralise
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jobs. The decision overruled an internal report on the matter, which recommended
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as a more appropriate location. In December 2013, the High Court quashed a decision by O'Neill to reallocate 7% of
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funds to rural development projects that had been favoured by
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s. The court ruled that she was in breach of the Ministerial Code, having not sought the necessary permissions for the transfer from the Executive. O'Neill replaced the DUP's Simon Hamilton as
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following the 2016 election. After eight days in office, she announced she would be scrapping the lifetime ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood in Northern Ireland. On 25 October 2016, O'Neill unveiled a document titled ''Health and Wellbeing 2026: Delivering Together'', a ten-year plan which is based on the findings of the Bengoa Report and aims to modernise the health and social care system.


Vice President of Sinn Féin

In January 2017, when
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resigned as deputy First Minister in protest at the
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, and said that he would not stand in the resulting
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, O'Neill was chosen as Sinn Féin's new "party leader in the North". The fact that she was favoured for the leadership ahead of former IRA member
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marked a notable break in the leadership's direct association with the organisation. In the 2017 Assembly election that followed McGuinness's resignation, O'Neill was returned to the Assembly, topping the poll in Mid Ulster and with a 20.6% share of
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. In March 2017, she called for a
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on the reunification of Ireland "as soon as possible" in response to
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. O'Neill led the Sinn Féin side in the inter-party negotiations that followed the election, aiming to restore a power-sharing coalition in Northern Ireland, but said at the end of March that the talks had failed and Sinn Féin would not nominate her for the position of deputy First Minister. In February 2018, O'Neill became vice president of
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, succeeding
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, who became president following the retirement of
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. In November 2019 she faced a leadership challenge from
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, winning with 67% of the vote.


Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland

In January 2020, O'Neill was appointed deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. She automatically lost her position on 14 June 2021 when
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resigned as First Minister, and regained it three days later when she and
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were nominated as deputy First Minister and First Minister respectively on 17 June 2021. In February 2022, O'Neill once again lost her position as deputy First Minister with the resignation of Paul Givan as First Minister.


First Minister of Northern Ireland


Designate (2022–2024)

Following the 2022 Assembly election,
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won the largest number of seats with 27 seats, becoming the largest political party in the
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. Their unionist counterparts, the
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(DUP) came second with 25 seats. As a result of being the largest party, this put O'Neill in line to become the First Minister of Northern Ireland and the DUP leader to become the deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland. However, O'Neill did not take up the position until February 2024 because, as part of its opposition to the
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, the DUP refused to nominate a deputy First minister and there was therefore no functioning executive of Northern Ireland. In August 2022, O'Neill was asked in a
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interview whether it was right during
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for the Provisional IRA "to engage in violent resistance to British rule". O'Neill was criticised for her response, including by then DUP leader
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, when she said: "I think at the time there was no alternative, but now thankfully we have an alternative to conflict, and that is the Good Friday Agreement – that is why it's so precious to us all." She added in February 2024, "I think the alternative was the Good Friday Agreement, it was peace, and I'm so glad that we arrived at that position". In September 2022, O'Neill broke with Republican tradition to attend the funeral of
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of the United Kingdom. In May 2023, O'Neill attended the coronation of King Charles III, saying, "Well obviously I wanted to be here. We live in changing times and it was the respectful thing to do, to show respect and to be here for all those people at home, who I had said I would be a first minister for all. Attendance here is about honouring that and fulfilling my promise." Under her leadership, Sinn Féin has led most NI opinion polls for the
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.


First Minister (2024–present)

On 30 January 2024, the
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announced their willingness to return to power-sharing. This paved the way for O'Neill, as nationalist leader to be sworn in as First Minister of Northern Ireland. O'Neill assumed office on 3 February 2024, becoming the first ever Irish nationalist, republican or Catholic to hold that position. In her Stormont acceptance speech, she again broke with republican tradition, by using the term,
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. She pledged in her speech to represent all and to show respect to the
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. On 5 February, O'Neill held meetings with
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,
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,
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and ministers of the
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. High on the agenda is the request for additional financial support for the Northern Ireland government in excess of the £3.3 billion package already pledged from the
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. In November 2024, O'Neill became the first senior Sinn Féin figure to take part in an official
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ceremony, laying a laurel wreath at the Belfast Cenotaph at
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. A banner was subsequently hung outside her office brandishing O'Neill a "traitor"; police investigated the incident as "hate-motivated."


Libel action against John Carson

In May 2023, O'Neill pursued a libel action against former DUP councillor John Carson for defamation; this followed a comment he had made on social media in April 2021 and for which he later apologised. In November 2023, the High Court ruled, "no award of damages is payable" as her reputation remained intact. The court recognised the comment was "abusive, highly offensive and misogynistic" but concluded it fell short of being defamatory. Both parties were made responsible for their own legal costs amounting to over £12,000 for each litigant. Judge Bell concluded that it was a minor case, that should never have reached the High Court. Carson was suspended by his party for three months, when the local government commissioner for standards, found 'Mr Carson had breached the code of conduct for councillors' and they imposed a similar sanction.


Personal life

O'Neill became pregnant at the age of 16 and gave birth to her daughter at the same age. She has said she was prayed over at school when she became pregnant. She completed her
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studies at her Catholic grammar school and went on to train as a welfare rights adviser. She married Paddy O'Neill when she was 18 and they have two children together. She separated from her husband in 2014. O'Neill became a grandmother in 2023.


Electoral history

Northern Ireland Assembly elections


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