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Nov 2022
27m 51s

Premature election

Bbc Radio Ulster
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Mark Carruthers asks Political Editor Enda McClafferty, RTE's Northern Editor Vincent Kearney and Belfast Telegraph Political Editor Suzanne Breen if we're having an election.

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