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At first she took jobs as a translator and as a BBC secretary, before attending Ulster University where she qualified to begin work as a social worker.

"When I came to the place where it would happen, there were only men, apart from female translators," she said.

But county officials told BBC Verify that some in the group “needed the assistance of translators”.

“If I needed, I had people who could translate,” he says over Zoom from across town with the help of a translator himself.

Beyond that, we speak almost exclusively through a Vietnamese translator.