On polling day, candidate Bernadette Devlin talks to Don McManus having cast her vote for the first time in an election.

McManus asks Devlin about how she is feeling on voting day. Devlin says she is tired but that she is glad that polling day has arrived. Commenting on the first time she has cast a vote Devlin said, "I hope I continue the way I started - voting for justice all the way".

RTÉ News interviews Bernadette Devlin after she has voted for the first time broadcast on 17 April 1969.

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