Standing outside a shopping centre in Belfast, Ann McCartney sighs. “Food is going up. There are ridiculous prices for electricity and gas. You don’t see your money when you’re in the shops — I’m cutting back.”
For the 56-year-old who relies on sickness benefits, and many others in Northern Ireland, the cost of living crisis is the top concern ahead of potentially historic May 5 elections for the regional assembly at Stormont.
If the polls are correct, the nationalist Sinn Féin party will become the largest, toppling unionists who have led Northern Ireland since its creation a century ago.
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