Seán O'Neill

The Right Honorable Sir Sean O'Neill
Seán Séamus Marc ua Néill Noígiallaich
Deputy Chancellor
In office 18 April 2021 – 30 November 2021
Chancellor	Robert Smith
Preceded by	Jayden Attlee
Succeeded by	James Christian
Leader of the Opposition
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 March 2024
Monarch	Robert Smith II
Chancellor	Elliot Doe
Preceded by	Adam Johnston
Leader of the Progressive Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 March 2024
Deputy	Maximilian Meister
Preceded by	Adam Johnston
In office 12 December 2021 – 15 December 2021
Preceded by	Adam Johnston
Succeeded by	Thomas Bainbridge
Deputy Speaker of the Grand Senate
In office 23 October 2023 – 19 March 2025 Serving with Eugune Smith (23 October 2023 - 6 November 2023)
Monarch	Robert Smith II
Chancellor	Elliot Doe
Preceded by	Thomas Bainbridge
Prime Minister of Daeltheria
In office 27 October 2020 – 19 September 2021
Monarch	Suyash Adhikari
Deputy	Jack McLarnon (until 12 July 2021)
Preceded by	James Christian
Succeeded by	Merk Brandt
Grand Senator
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 May 2023
Constituency	Daeltheria 1 (until 18 September 2023) Daeltheria 2 (from 18 September 2023)
In office 23 September 2022 – 24 January 2023
Constituency	Daeltheria 2
In office 19 July 2020 – 23 September 2021
Constituency	Daeltheria-at-Large Daeltheria 1 (24 October 2020 - 21 January 2021)
Member of the Parliament of Daeltheria
In office 17 November 2020 – 20 December 2021
Provost of New Antrim
In office 29 July 2021 – 1 January 2022
Preceded by	Himself as Governor of New Antrim
Succeeded by	Office vacant
Governor of New Antrim
In office 17 November 2020 – 29 July 2021
Preceded by	Position Established
Succeeded by	Himself as Governor of New Antrim
Personal details
Born	Seán James O'Neill 21 December 2006 (aged 17) Belfast, Northern Ireland
Nationality	Elysiumite Irish
Political party	Progressive-Labor Party
Other political affiliations	Daeltherian Progressives Rhinoceros Party Elysiumite Communist Party (2020)
Awards	Knight of the Order of Robert II Knight of the Republic
Nickname	Dagda

Sir Seán James Mark O'Neill known by his pseudonym Dagda (born 21 December 2006) is an Irish-Elysiumite politician, attorney, writer, media producer. O'Neill has served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Progressive Party since March 2024 and as a Grand Senator from Daeltheria since May 2023. O'Neill is a local citizen of Daeltheria.

Previously, on the federal level O'Neill served as Robert Smith's last Deputy Chancellor between April and November 2021, Deputy Speaker of the Grand Senate between October 2023 and March 2024. O'Neill was briefly the Leader of the Progressive Party following Adam Johnston's resignation in the aftermath of the restoration of the Monarchy and has previously served as Grand Senator initially from July 2020 until September 2021 and again from September 2022 until January 2023. Within Daeltheria he previously served as Prime Minister between November 2020 until September 2021 in addition to being a member of it's Parliament between November 2020 and March 2022. Locally O'Neill was responsible for municipal governance of New Antrim between November 2020 and January 2022.

O'Neill became an Elysiumite citizen in February 2020, he entered politics shortly after the creation of the Elysiumite republic briefly leading a communist party before joining the Progressive Party. O'Neill would hold his first public office following his election to be the Daeltherian Senator to the Grand Senate, O'Neill would continue his rise before peaking in April 2021 with his election as Deputy Chancellor. Following the rise of Elliot Doe and a renewed monarchist movement O'Neill became the primary voice for radical hardline Republicanism which would result in his political downfall and his loss of all public offices by March 2022. The premiere of Elysium the Movie allowed O'Neill to jumpstart his political career being re-elected to the Grand Senate first in September 2022 and again in May 2023. O'Neill announced that he would run for the leadership of the Progressive-Labor Party in February 2024 and the next month he was elected unopposed.

O'Neill is active in various other foreign nations such as Begon and Pontunia, where he serves as a noble in the former and a Parliamentary Speaker in the later.

Early Life

Seán was the eldest and only son born to Matthew O'Neill and Melissa O'Neill, in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 21 December. He would be baptized into the Catholic faith in the following February with Charlotte O'Neill and her husband acting as the Godmother and Godfather respectively. During his Primary school education it would be discovered that Seán was affected by developmental coordination disorder, at his primary school he undertook the sacraments of initiation before moving on to attend Secondary School where he completed his GCSE examinations attaining Two A*s in Business Studies and ICT, As in English Language, History and Religion, a B in Performing Arts and a C* in Mathematics.

In 2017, O'Neill founded New Antrim along with his family which started his micronational career. In 2020, New Antrim would become a part of the Kingdom of Daeltheria despite attempts to restore the nation in 2021 and 2023 - 2024.

Early Political Career

O'Neill would become a naturalized citizen of Elysium on 7 February 2020. His political career began with the May 2020 general election when he attempted to contest a seat in the Grand Senate, which was unsuccessful. On 9 June 2020, he registered the Elysiumite Communist Party prior to the July 2020 general election. O'Neill's strategy was initially to form a form of united front with the Progressive Party, whenever this failed he adjusted his strategy to combat the Progressives. However after a public discussion with Adam Johnston, O'Neill agreed to join the Progressive Party six days prior to the July 2020 election thus the Elysiumite Communist Party effectively ceased to exist.

Following the July 2020 general election, O'Neill became a Grand Senator representing Daeltheria-at-Large. O'Neill's early tenure in the Grand Senate was relatively uneventful, save for a few public calls for the implementation of a Socialist economic system. O'Neill primarily served during this time as Editor-General of the Progressive Party's newspaper, the Liberty Papers - the Progressive Truth. O'Neill would be re-elected to the Grand Senate following the breakup of Daeltheria into multiple constituencies.

In November 2020, O'Neill successfully negotiated the incorporation of New Antrim into the Kingdom of Daeltheria under the Elysiumite [New] Antrim Unification Treaty and would serve as the head of it's municipal government until 2022.

Premiership in Daeltheria

On 27 October 2020, Robert Smith, acting as regent for the Daeltherian King Suyash Adhikari appointed O'Neill as Prime Minister of Daeltheria and called for new elections. This immediately made O'Neill the de facto chief of the Daeltherian Progressives a position he arguably had held since Mid to Late-July 2020 whenever he formally registered the Progressives in Daeltheria for the first time since the party's founding. O'Neill's first act as Prime Minister was to appoint his close friend, Jack McLarnon as Deputy Prime Minister. In the time between his appointment and the November 2020 Daeltherian General Election he did not appoint a cabinet.

The resulting November Election resulted in the Daeltherian Progressives achieving a a 67% majority. O'Neill then announced his legislative plan, which would: Merge the Government and Opposition into a permanent national union government and would fully incorporate New Antrim as a regional dependency of Daeltheria. O'Neill announced the formation of his first Daeltherian Cabinet consisting entirely of Progressive members of Parliament except for the inclusion of the Leader of the Opposition.

Following the incorperation of New Antrim, O'Neill called for a snap election in December 2020. The resulting elections resulted in O'Neill expanding his control of Parliament to 71% and the re-appointment of his cabinet.

On 17 December 2021 on the first day of the Second O'Neill Cabinet, the first landmark proposal of the Daeltherian O'Neill Ministry was proposed. The First Constitutional Amendment. The amendment formally recognised the creation of the Republican system in Elysium by the Daeltherian Government and standardised election time periods.

On 15 February 2021, the digital hub of the Elysiumite Government located on Discord was hit by a raid by a user known as 'Fear the Horde of Rantov', within roughly half an hour the raider had breached the Daeltherian Government Hub through invites on the Federal Server. Within minutes O'Neill had declared a state of emergency and had put the Daeltherian Government Hub and the New Antrian Government Hub on a 'lockdown' with approval from the federal cabinet. During the state of emergency, the February 2021 elections in Daeltheria were delayed. On 19 February 2021 the State of Emergency officially ended.

The February 2021 elections occurred in May 2021 with O'Neill retaining his position as Prime Minister. However O'Neill was at this point clearly running out of time. A final draft of the Constitution of the Duchy of Daeltheria was prepared and proposed, however Robert Smith, as executive leader of the federal Progressive Party ordered O'Neill to withdraw it.

The September 2021 Daeltherian Elections resulted in a hung Parliament, the Daeltherian Progressives held 4 seats and the Daeltherian Social Democratic Party and Daeltherian National Democrats both won 2 seats each. Initially, it looked likely that O'Neill would form a coalition Government with the SPD, however soon thereafter, the National Democrats and SPD formed the 'Democratic Coalition' resulting in the Progressives and Democratic Coalition being tied within Parliament. At this stage, O'Neill had lost favour with Robert Smith, still acting as the Royal Regent who allowed the SPD-led Democratic Coalition to form a new government, led by Merk Brandt.

Post-Premiership

Following his Premiership, O'Neill still attempted to cling onto power. His final attempt at doing so was trying to get a Democratic Coalition member to be elected as Speaker of Parliament. This would have resulted in a reduction of one member in the Democratic Coalition giving the Daeltherian Progressives A narrow 57% majority, this attempt however failed.

This resulted in a wider failure to elect a Speaker resulting in the internal destruction of Daeltherian politics. Robert Smith had stepped aside as Regent and Adhikari had nominally returned. However since he had vanished from Parliament there was no presiding officer to preside over a speaker election.

Attempts by Robert Smith and Seán O'Neill failed, attempts by James Christian to directly intervene on behalf of his party likewise failed. O'Neill would remain a member of the Daeltherian Parliament until December 2021, leaving due to his departure from the wider Progressive Party earlier in the month. He would not return to Daeltherian politics until he attempted to contest the First Ministership (which had replaced the Premiership after the Commonwealth Reform Act) in May 2023, where he lost.

Media career

Poster of Elysium the movie, designed by Hoteit.

In February 2021, O'Neill began to speak publicly about founding a media production company named Partisan Productions. On 18 February 2021 Partisan Productions was officially registered with O'Neill serving as Chairman of the Board. O'Neill soon thereafter commissioned a Doctor Who audio series. Soon thereafter he commissioned a horror series from a close friend and fellow New Antrian local Quince Sloan. However Partisan Productions began to take a slide into inactivity following O'Neill's election as Deputy Chancellor. On 25 July 2021, the Partisan Productions Union was founded.

On 27 June 2022, O'Neill was formally asked by Robert Smith to produce Elysium the Movie. A script for Elysium the Movie was discussed by Moustapha Hoteit and Johann Kümmel in July 2021 and a script by Hoteit was published in February 2022. O'Neill formally commissioned the shortfilm on the same day as the Grand Emperor's request, recruiting Hoteit as the films director. Production on the film concluded on 27 June 2022 with O'Neill approving of it on the same day. The film premiered on 1 July 2022 in time for Elysium Day in Sir Kyle's Square. As Elysium Day coincides with Canada Day and as Hoteit is a Canadian Citizen who was participating in festivities related to Canada Day, O'Neill hosted the event and represented Partisan Productions. During the 2021 Elysium Day honours, O'Neill was granted permission by Robert Smith to rename Partisan Productions to "Imperial Elysium Studios".

Following the release of Elysium the Movie, a leak of a script for Elysium the Movie 2 appeared online on 17 July 2022, forcing O'Neill to release a statement denying that Elysium the Movie 2 had been ordered, or would be ordered which minimized hope for a sequel. However in fact several hours prior to that, O'Neill had assembled Hoteit and Kümmel to begin work on a project that would become Elysium the Movie 2. On 18 July 2023, O'Neill officially announced Elysium the Movie 2 and Elysium the Movie 3 to an overwhelmingly positive reaction. Although there were some public opponents, such as Christoph Billung.

Filmography

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Acted	Notes
2021	The Aggressive Scale	Co-Director	No	Yes	No	Audio-series
2021	Based Baddie speedrun Any%	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Short video
2022	Elysium the Movie	No	No	Yes	No	Short film
2024	Elysium the Movie 2	No	No	Yes	Yes	Short film not yet released

Honours

Styles

• 21 December 2006 - 2 February 2021; 25 January 2022 - 1 July 2022: Seán O'Neill
• 2 February 2021 - 25 January 2022: Sir Seán O'Neill
• 1 July 2022 - 23 September 2022; 24 January 2022 - 22 May 2023: The Right Honourable Sir Seán O'Neill, Knight of Emperor Robert
• 23 September 2022 - 24 January 2023; 22 May 2023 - present: The Right Honourable Sir Seán O'Neill, Grand Senator for Daeltheria and Knight of Emperor Robert

Foreign Styles

• His Lordship, Sir Sean O’Neill, Cassock of McLauren
• The Right Honourable the Prince of Ulster

Awards

• Alaurentian Recognition Award, c. 2019
• Order of the People, c. May 2020
• Knight of the Republic, 2 February 2021 (order dissolved 25 January 2022)
• Knight of the Order of Robert II, 1 July 2021
• O'Neill Film Production Award, 1 July 2021
• Member of the Order of Loyalty, 26 December 2023
• Knight of the Order of the House of Kümmel, 1 January 2024
• Order of the Companions of Justice, Third Class, 8 January 2024

Foreign Titles

• Prince of Ulster
• Cassock of McLauren
• 1st Baronet of Rupertsville