Theme of reconciliation emerges as West Tyrone faces byelection
Victims’ candidate mooted following resignation of Sinn Féin MP over video
Alan Black, sole survivor of a sectarian massacre of 10 Protestant workmen in 1976 near Kingsmill, Co Armagh, was widely praised following an interview on RTÉ radio. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
In West Tyrone, voters are facing their fifth trip to the polls in less than two years.
Like the rest of Northern Ireland, they’ve become somewhat used to unexpected elections, casting their votes in a snap Assembly election in March 2017, and in a UK general election in June.