Nationalist party Sinn Fein were the big winners of Thursday’s snap early election to the Stormont Assembly, on the back of increased voter turnout and a financial scandal that had brought down the latest power-sharing administration after just ten months. They advanced to within one seat of the Democratic Unionist Party, and finished just 0.2 […]
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DUP set to limit damage in Northern Ireland Assembly snap election
Thursday’s snap election for the Northern Irish Assembly was inevitably going to punish the province’s largest party, the Democratic Unionists, after their First Minister Arlene Foster was tarred with suggestions of scandal around funding a renewable energy scheme. However the second and final opinion poll of the brief campaign, published today by Lucid Talk, shows […]