Stormont's new leaders have vowed to work in unity to press the UK Government for more funding to tackle the long list of problems facing public services in Northern Ireland.The region's first ever nationalist First Minister, Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill, and her DUP counterpart, deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly, were commenting after meeting Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Irish premier Leo Varadkar on a day when Stormont's new ministerial Executive got formally down to business.

Stormont's new leaders have vowed to work in unity to press the UK Government for more funding to tackle the long list of problems facing public services in Northern Ireland.The region's first ever nationalist First Minister, Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill, and her DUP counterpart, deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly, were commenting after meeting Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Irish premier Leo Varadkar on a day when Stormont's new ministerial Executive got formally down to business.