#UTVtrip in Foyle: How to shift out of the shadow of the past to the future?

There was a strange mix of intelligent optimism and fearful pessimism in the room at Cafe del Mondo in Derry last night. By all reports McGimpsey’s announcement that he had not received sufficient money to build the Radiotherapy Unit in Altnagelvin had caused much of the indignation (not much, says Mark Durkan, quite a bit, says Martina Anderson) there is amongst Foyle voters. However, given the UUP don’t have much skin in the Foyle game (it’s the only constituency where …

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#AE11 Open Thread: Foyle (#FO11)…

Foyle is probably one of the last few places where there is still a significant and meaningful divide between ‘nationalist’ and ‘Republican’ in the local electorate. In 2005 Sinn Fein’s Westminster candidate, Mitchel McLaughlin predicted a significant win for himself. In the end he was sorely disappointed. The clash between the SDLP and Sinn Fein will take place in what have been up to now been mutually exclusive electorates. As John has already noted the continuing candidacy of Eamonn McCann …

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