In her first speech in Northern Ireland since last weekend’s general election, Mary Lou McDonald told Sinn Féin’s Six County AGM that “the people voted for change”.
He said Sinn Féin “is in government in the North” and is ready to do likewise in the State.
“Just as the unionist majority here in the North has gone, the two-party system has been consigned to history”.Ms McDonald said her candidates had been elected in record numbers on a “people’s manifesto” and noted all 32 counties on the island of Ireland now had a Sinn Féin representative.
Ms McDonald also criticised “so-called dissidents” for making threats against Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill and Sinn Féin’s policing spokesman, Gerry Kelly MLA , for attending a PSNI recruitment event in Belfast.“They are at war with their community and are now threatening political representatives who serve the people,” she said.The section of the speech on the restoration of Stormont gained applause from the audience.
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