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Election 2010 Constituency Profile: Newry and Armagh

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Newry and Armagh is an overwhelmingly nationalist constituency which contains all of Armagh and half of Newry and Mourne.

The outgoing MP is Sinn Fein's Conor Murphy.

Almost 76,000 can vote here.

This constituency contains what was known as 'bandit country'.

It is the seat of Ireland's Protestant and Catholic Archbishops and it was a local man, William McCrum, who invented the penalty kick.

Our reporter in the area Gordon Adair has been looking at crime in Newry and Armagh for this constituency report.

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