Northern Ireland's headline-makers of 2022: No1. Michelle O’Neill

Michelle O’Neill’s year could not have gone any better from her point of view. Twelve months ago, she was deputy First Minister to the DUP’s Paul Givan, but she now emerges from 2022 as the First Minister-in-waiting and has led Sinn Fein to the highest first preference vote for a nationalist party since the Assembly was set up nearly 25 years ago.