Kate Smith reports for Good Evening Ulster from Northern
Ireland's geographically largest parliamentary constituency of Mid Ulster. The
current election campaign, resulting from the mass resignation of Unionist MPs
in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement, sees the seat up for grabs and the
resigning MP hoping to be re-elected is gospel-singing star and Free
Presbyterian minister the Reverend William McCrea, who won the seat in 1983 by
just 78 votes.
The ultra-marginal seat represents a risk to the Unionist
strategy as they use the by-elections as a de facto referendum on the
Anglo-Irish Agreement, although the Ulster Unionists are not standing a
candidate in order to allow McCrea a clear run. McCrea is interviewed for the
report as well as another anti-Agreement candidate, Sinn Fein's Danny Morrison,
who finished a narrow second in 1983.
There is also an
interview with Adrian Colton, who is standing as a pro-Agreement candidate for
the SDLP, and Tommy Owens of the Workers' Party.