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Historic moment: Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill and Alex Maskey welcome King Charles III at Hillsborough Castle earlier this year

John Laverty

Sinn Fein cosying up to King Charles III at Hillsborough Castle in September, while a po-faced Sir Jeffrey Donaldson looked on, irked a lot of people at the time.

Unionists obviously, who felt it was their ‘birthright’ to be greeting the first new monarch in 70 years.