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The King announced that he had cancer, which was discovered during his treatment for non-malignant prostate trouble. He would continue with state duties, including weekly audiences for the Prime Minister, while receiving out-patient treatment. Public engagements, of which he performed 425 last year, would be kept by the Queen and the Prince of Wales. The Duke of Sussex, his younger son, flew from California to see him.
Michelle O’Neill, the Deputy Leader of Sinn Féin, became the First Minister of Northern Ireland as the Northern Ireland Assembly met for the first time in two years since the Democratic Unionists boycotted it over post-Brexit trade rules. The DUP nominated, as Deputy First Minister, Emma Little-Pengelly. Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, and Leo Varadkar, the Taoiseach, visited Stormont Castle. Opponents of a plan to carve caves from strata of salt under Larne Lough, to store half a billion cubic metres of gas, took their campaign to the Appeal Court.
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