"If we keep turning up together here they'll have to rename it the 'Hill of O'Neill & Foster," quipped Arlene Foster on Thursday evening.
The DUP leader and Northern Ireland’s First Minister had just finished a news conference with Deputy First Minister and Sinn Féin vice-president, Michelle O’Neill, at the Hill of O’Neill site in Dungannon.
In recent times, the duo has taken to giving media briefings at the spectacular venue close to Dungannon town centre. From the elevated site on a good day, as many as seven counties of the province of Ulster (pre-partition version) can be seen.
For over 300 years, the region was the stronghold of the O’Neill family, including Hugh O’Neill who along with Hugh O’Donnell went into exile after the Battle of