Voters in the North are set for another election in mid-December.
It's after Stormont met this afternoon and failed to elect a speaker, which is necessary to officially elect a new First and Deputy First Minister.
US senator George Mitchell, who helped negotiate the Good Friday Agreement, says there needs to be patience in the North.
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He told an Oireachtas Committee today issues in Stormont need to be solved by MPs on the ground:
