Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shocks, the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday roundup.

Michelle O'Neill made history this week if she became Northern Ireland's first nationalist first minister.

Speaking to David Blevins on Sky News, she described herself as a proud Republican,

but also said she wants to be a unifier.

Belvins asked her about her ambitions for Irish unity.

You've assumed this office, but it's basically on the basis of a deal between the UK government and the DUP.

And in that deal on page 68 it says on the basis of all

recent polling the government sees no realistic prospect of a border pole leading to a united

Ireland that Northern Ireland's future in the UK will be secure

for decades to come.

Your party leader says a United Ireland is within touching distance.

Decades are touching distance.

Which is it?

Well, firstly, I believe I'm in the post of first minister

because I received a mandate from the public.

They returned me to be elected to this post and therefore

I regret the fact that for two years the DUP stayed out of these institutions and we weren't

able to deal with the day-to-day issues, public services, the fact that there are so many of our

public sector workers had to go out

on to the picket lines. But thankfully they've made the right call now. They've decided to come back in and I welcome that. I welcome that we now

of Parashore and once again restored and we've got a very large entry of work to get

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