An electoral pact could change things utterly

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By Jim Gibney (for Irish News)

In 1981 the nationalist people of Fermanagh/South Tyrone voted tactically against Thatcher and made Bobby Sands - a man on hunger strike in a prison hospital - their MP. He would never be able to take his seat. But they voted for him in their thousands.

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