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🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Mark Carruthers and guests assess the four Belfast constituencies ahead of the election.
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0:00.0 | We're almost at the end of this particular Red Lines journey. |
0:03.9 | This is the sixth and final constituency profile podcast ahead of May's Assembly election. |
0:09.4 | The previous five editions are still available to listen to, |
0:12.2 | so there's no reason to feel out of touch with the issues and the characters right across the country. |
0:18.0 | Today we're focusing on the four Belfast constituencies where there are |
0:21.2 | seemingly endless opportunities for change, some substantive, some perhaps a bit more subtle. |
0:27.1 | With me, to read the Roons, our three familiar Red Lines guests, Slugger O'Toole's Deputy Editor |
0:32.2 | David McCann, who's been our numbers man for this series of profiles, Belfast Telegraphs, Alison |
0:37.4 | Morris and our political correspondent Jane McCormick. Welcome to all of you, David Littles. our numbers man for this series of profiles. Belfast Telegraphs, Alison Morris, |
0:38.1 | and our political correspondent Jane McCormick. |
0:40.2 | Welcome to all of you. |
0:41.3 | David, let's start with North Belfast, |
0:43.3 | where the Alliance Party is hopeful of again |
0:46.1 | and where the DUP and Schoenfane |
0:47.9 | could both be feeling the pressure. |
0:49.9 | Yeah, absolutely. |
0:50.6 | So North Belfast actually has no incumbent DUP MLA seeking re-election. So they're both two new candidates at assembly level. So you've got Brian Kingston and you have got Philip Brett. Both of them are actually group leaders. One in Antronut Nabi and the other one in Belfast City Council. So they'd be well known in different parts of the constituency. |
1:11.7 | So they're looking to hold the two DUP seats that are currently there. |
1:16.5 | On the other side of that, you've got two veteran Sinn Féin MLA seeking re-election. |
1:20.7 | You've got Caronnie Cullen and Jerry Kelly as well for Sinn Féin. |
1:24.9 | And also Nicola Mal and the SDLP deputy leader is also up again, |
1:27.9 | Minister for Infrastructure. |
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