The party's road to election success is remarkable - but how well can they and the DUP work together?
Peader Whelan is a former paramilitary prisoner who now works as a guide taking tourists around Belfast's old trouble spots. At the end of his tour, he hands them over to hear from a former loyalist prisoner on the other side of a peace wall - a large concrete and high wire fence dividing mostly Catholic and mostly Protestant communities.
For those who remember the Troubles, Sinn Féin still deeply divides opinion. The party believes the conflict was a legitimate armed struggle, though it now strongly advocates peace. The challenge for the party now is to form a power-sharing executive at the Stormont assembly. The power-sharing system was created to ensure equality between unionist and nationalist communities, and it has often led to long periods of dysfunctional government.
It objects to the protocol, the part of the agreement that created a new trade border in the Irish Sea. The arrangement means there are now checks on goods travelling from Britain to Northern Ireland.
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