Sinn Fein hails ‘new era’ as it wins Northern Ireland vote


              Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill, right, and party leader Mary Lou McDonald after Sinn Fein topped the poll at the Medow Bank election count centre on Saturday, May, 7, 2022, in Magherafelt , Northern Ireland. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
            
              Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill speaks after topping the poll at the Medow Bank election count centre on Saturday, May, 7, 2022, in Magherafelt , Northern Ireland. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
            
              DUP Assembly candidate Harry Harvey celebrates being returned as an MLA at the Titanic Exhibition Centre during the count for the Northern Ireland Assembly Election, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Friday, May 6, 2022. (Liam McBurney/PA via AP)
            
              Sinn Fein's Vice President Michelle O'Neill, centre, celebrates with party colleagues after being elected in Mid Ulster at the Medow Bank election count centre in Magherafelt , Northern Ireland, Friday, May, 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
            
              Sinn Fein's Vice President Michelle O'Neill, centre, welebrates with party colleagues after being elected in Mid Ulster at the Medow Bank election count centre in Magherafelt , Northern Ireland, Friday, May, 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
            
              Democratic Unionist Party's Edwin Poots, center, with his wife Glynis, left, at the Titanic Exhibition Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, after being returned as an MLA for the Northern Ireland Assembly, Friday, May 6, 2022. (Liam McBurney/PA via AP)
            
              Democratic Unionist Party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson makes a speech at Ulster University Jordanstown count center in Newtownabbey, in North Belfast, Northern Ireland, as counting continues in the Northern Ireland Assembly Election, early Saturday, May 7 2022. (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)
            
              Democratic Unionist Party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson congratulates party colleague Pam Cameron on her election at Ulster University Jordanstown count center in Newtownabbey, in North Belfast, Northern Ireland, as counting continues in the Northern Ireland Assembly Election on Friday, May, 6 2022. (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)
            
              Election staff begin vote counting in Belfast in the Northern Ireland Assembly election early Friday in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Friday, May 6, 2022. In Northern Ireland, voters are electing a new 90-seat Assembly, with polls suggesting the Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein could win the largest number of seats, and the post of first minister, in what would be a historic first. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)