Young voters in Enniskillen show dismay at Sinn Féin and the DUP in run-up to this week’s elections

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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