Follow live as Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill addresses the UK Covid-19 inquiry
Sinn Féin vice president Michelle O’Neill was deputy first minister of Northern Ireland when the pandemic hit – having taken up the post two months earlier.
In March 2020 – before full lockdown – she contradicted the policy outlined by Democratic Unionist Party Education Minister Peter Weir, who said that schools would close at some point but would not set a date.But in May 2020 O’Neill and Foster told Sky News they had been brought closer together by working closely on the response to the pandemic.
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