My colleague Conor Macauley was trying to interview the SDLP MLA Conall McDevitt in the Holyland yesterday during the St Patrick's Day festivities, when a reveller with several pints inside him interrupted with a mixture of gestures and shouts of "unionist b------!" Things got so bad a police officer intervened. But the bystander appeared to calm down when he realised Conall was a nationalist, not a unionist. When he sobers up, Conor intends to explain the D'Hondt system to him.
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