RTÉ News reports on life after losing your seat in an election. Brian Swift of Fianna Fáil and and Martin Cullen of the Progressive Democrats tell reporter Michael Ryan what losing their Dáil seats in the general election means for them.

A RTÉ News report on the aftermath of the 1989 general election broadcast 26 June 1989.

Martin Cullen would later join Fianna Fáil be re-elected and serve as a cabinet minister.

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