Sinn Féin, a nationalist party committed to taking Northern Ireland out of the UK and into a united Ireland, has secured an historic victory in regional elections but could face an uphill struggle to deliver on its republican dream a century after the island was partitioned.
The party long associated with the paramilitary Irish Republican Army won 27 out of the 90 seats in Northern Ireland’s devolved assembly at Stormont, meaning that for the first time a nationalist party has emerged as the largest single group.
The pro-UK and previously dominant Democratic Unionist party secured 25 seats, while the centrist Alliance party, which identifies with neither side in the region’s tribal politics, won 17.
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