Niall O Donnghaile: portrait of former Lord Mayor removed from Belfast City Hall

A portrait of controversy-hit former Belfast Lord Mayor Niall O Donnghaile has been removed from its place on a wall inside City Hall.

Councillors agreed to the move on Thursday after Mr O Donnghaile's admission he quit Sinn Fein after sending allegedly inappropriate messages to a teenager.

First Minister Michelle O'Neill has said that there was "complete due diligence" in how the party handled the Niall O'Donnghaile case.

The Sinn Fein vice president said that everything the party knows "is now on the public record".

"Mary Lou (McDonald) has set out very categorically everything that we knew and when we knew it in the Dail statement yesterday," she said.

"She set out in terms of the internal party processes that we went through. I'm very confident that we had complete due diligence in terms of how we handled that case.

"She's also set out in terms of the aftermath of that, the fact that there were no criminal proceedings brought against Niall O'Donnghaile himself, and we were very conscious in terms of legal advice that was sought, in terms of naming the individual himself. I think that we can confidently stand over the approach that we took to that.

"As I said, from day one, we've set out to try to be as transparent as we can in terms of setting out all of the facts. I've done that in the Assembly chamber last week, Mary Lou did it again yesterday in the Dail, and that remains our approach. We've always wanted to be as frank as we possibly can with everybody and answer all the questions that people have put to us."