Not only will Derry not have a unionist mayor over the next four years but once again it doesn't have a single unionist councillor on the city's West Bank:
But could Sinn Féin's victory in Northern Ireland's recent council elections turn out to be a community relations disaster, especially in Northern Ireland's second city of Londonderry?
The images of the police cracking the protesters' skulls were beamed around the world, making Derry headline news. At one stage, from the late 1800s, Catholics were even forbidden from living within the walls of the historic city and instead settled in what became known as the Bogside, where large families were crammed into small, dilapidated houses and the living conditions were primitive.
In the election for Derry City and Strabane District Council last month, Sinn Féin was the big winnerThat meant that, under a system known as D'Hondt - used for carving up council positions - the party was entitled to nominate a mayor in three of the four years of the council term, with the SDLP as the next-largest party taking the remaining year.
Not only will Derry not have a unionist mayor over the next four years but once again it doesn't have a single unionist councillor on the city's West Bank.Graham Warke, who wore the mayoral chain in 2021-22, may be the last unionist first citizen of Derry for several years
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