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Jurors are chosen at random and subject to the usual challenge by counsel. However, some advise the wearing of an Orange Widows' Fund badge if jury-summoned to a trial with Republican defendants, while the other side should sport a Fainne, or gold circular badge denoting an Irish speaker and therefore a Republican sympathiser, if summoned to a 'loyalist' trial. Either way one is challenged and avoids being penned up maybe for weeks.
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