N.Ireland votes to try to break deadlock
By Reuters
03 March 2017 |
8:11 am
Northern Ireland goes to the polls on Thursday in a snap election to try to scramble out of a political crisis. All eyes will be on the ensuing wrangling to form a power-sharing government.
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