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Inside Europe - What's at stake in Northern Irish election?

Helen Seeney
February 23, 2017

The Northern Irish vote for a new Assembly on March 2. The snap election was triggered by a breakdown in relations between Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party. The two parties are expected to remain the largest ones after the election and will then have three weeks to form a government to avoid a return to direct rule from London. Helen Seeney talks to Belfast journalist David McKittrick.

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