Note: This text is from May 2023 and was republished on the occasion of Michelle O’Neill’s swearing-in.
If you ask Michelle O’Neill, 46, which experience from the time of the Northern Irish Civil War particularly influenced her personally, she doesn’t say that her father was in prison during her childhood. Or how one of her cousins was shot dead by a British SAS commando and a second was seriously injured by British police.
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