Party vice-president says gesture demonstrates commitment to building good relations and advancing peace
the Democratic Unionist party as the biggest party in assembly elections last year, making its leader in Northern Ireland the region’s putative first minister. The party’s president, Mary Lou McDonald, is based in Dublin. A DUP boycott of power-sharing has paralysed Stormont and prevented O’Neill becoming first minister.
Alex Maskey, Sinn Féin’s speaker of the assembly, will accompany O’Neill. Their attendance will underline the party’s distancing from previous republican orthodoxy. As an IRA mouthpiece during the Troubles, it condemned the royal family as part of a colonial “war machine” and celebrated the 1979 assassination of Lord Mountbatten.by saying there had been “no alternative” to the IRA campaign, which killed about half of the 3,700 people who died during the Troubles.
Maskey and O’Neill met King Charles in Belfast last September. O’Neill attended the Queen’s funeral service in London the same month. Her predecessor Martin McGuinness broke the republican taboo when he
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