#UTV Roadtrip: Fermanagh and South Tyrone beyond the digital frontier?

Fermanagh South Tyrone have one big thing in common. They are both rural, highly dependent on the health of Argiculture and, as the Minister for Agriculture Michelle Gildernew told us, both struggle with a perceived lack of seriousness with which policy makers treat both rural and small scale urban resources. Listen! But in many other respects, South Tyrone is very different from Fermanagh. Dungannon is at the heart of a thriving agri-industrial life. The huge growth in migrant labour is visible …

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#AE11 Open Thread: Fermanagh and South Tyrone (#fst11)

Okay, today we drift on from North Antrim to Fermanagh and South Tyrone. There’s a little something in this for the four main parties (it’s too far west for the Alliance and Greens to have any skin in this most westerly game). How will the SDLP vote hold up after Sinn Fein’s successful big heave against the single Unionist candidate last May? Has Tom Elliot energised his local association to stem the turning tide of traditional UUers who’ve been steadily …

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