Edge gone out of Trimble-Donaldson clash

Wed, Apr 28, 2010, 01:00

Dan Keenan

CONSTITUENCY PROFILE:FIVE YEARS ago the prospect of a Trimble versus Donaldson election clash would have been a highlight of the campaign.

The very public clash between the then Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble and the renegade Jeffrey Donaldson, who had just been welcomed into the arms of the DUP, would have headlined that Westminster campaign.

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