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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Lisa O'Carroll

‘It’s a bit of a circus’: the Northern Irish voters tired of polarised politics

Mark and Grace Hoy smiling in street with their toddler.
Mark and Grace Hoy have returned from England to Enniskillen and are pondering their vote. Photograph: Lisa O'Carroll

On the streets of Enniskillen, a handful of twentysomething women, all from a unionist background, discuss this week’s elections.

The Northern Ireland protocol does not come up once, but what does surface repeatedly among 18- to 34-year-olds asked open questions about their voting intentions is the frustration with the framing of this election, like many before it, as a vote on the constitutional question of whether Northern Ireland should remain part of the UK or unify with Ireland.

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