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The former MP Francie Molloy, who has been without electricity since last Friday, said customers have been "failed".

Her career in the assembly began in 2007, when she joined Martin McGuinness and Francie Molloy as a Mid Ulster assembly member.

In addition to working with him and his fellow Mid Ulster assembly member Francie Molloy, she spent this period training as a welfare rights adviser.

“Daddy Was a Number Runner,” published in 1970, tells of a poor Black community in Harlem during the 1930s as seen through the eyes of 12-year-old Francie Coffin.

But it is also a testament to the human spirit, whether Francie’s growing consciousness of her sexuality or the tenuous bond she feels as she looks out on the street life of Harlem.