ALLIANCE Councillor Naomi Long has said a smoking ban – which starts tomorrow April 1 – in all Belfast City Council buildings will lead to a healthier city. Councillor Long, who proposed the ban earlier this year, said: “This is no April Fool’s joke, and the ban on smoking in all council-owned properties will mean […]
Responding to the news that UDA East Belfast leader Jim Gray has been ‘ousted’, East Belfast Assembly member and Councillor, Naomi Long, stated: “Frankly, few people will really care that there has been a change in management in the UDA. What ordinary people want is for the UDA to go out of business. “Like the […]
Alliance Party Westminster Candidate for North Down, Dr David Alderdice, has questioned why the SDLP is raising the issue of a border poll while at the same time trying to campaign for partnership government in Northern Ireland. Speaking after reading the SDLP’s ‘green paper’ on a united Ireland,Councillor Alderdice stated: “A border poll is the […]
Alliance Leader and South Antrim Assembly member David Ford MLA has condemned the decision announced by the Department of the Environment to allow Cottonmount Quarry at Mallusk to be used as a landfill site. He specifically said that the Minister should have met local campaigners as she had previously refused to meet them, saying such […]
ALLIANCE Leader David Ford MLA has said his party would not stand in the way of West Tyrone Westminster candidate Dr Kieran Deeny. Speaking after a report that the SDLP was considering standing aside to allow Dr Deeny the best possible opportunity to win the seat from sitting MP Pat Doherty, Mr Ford stated: “It […]
Castlereagh Alliance Councillor, Michael Long, East Belfast Assembly Member, Cllr Naomi Long, and Laganbank representative Allan Leonard are to hand over a petition with over 600 signatures demanding the reinstatement of the Number 34 bus service from Mount Merrion to the Cregagh Road. They said that they have been overwhelmed by the response which clearly […]
Alliance Party Spokesperson for Belfast Laganbank, Allan Leonard, has condemned the announcement by the Belfast Education and Library Board that they are to scrap an English Additional Language Support Unit. Mr Leonard will is writing to the Equality Commission, as he believes the cuts may discriminate unnecessarily against children from ethnic minorities. Mr Leonard pointed […]
ALLIANCE South Antrim Assembly member and Party Leader David Ford has strongly criticised Education Minister Barry Gardiner after the North Eastern Education and Library Board voted for major cuts to school services under duress. Mr Ford stated: “The Northern Eastern Board is severely under-funded already, and these cuts to services will badly affect children’s education […]
Alliance Party Chief Whip, Alderman Kieran McCarthy MLA (Strangford), has welcomed the publication of a revised consultation document on the Review of Public Administration, giving options that better reflect the need to preserve local identity and democratic accountability. Kieran McCarthy stated: “This document marks a major change of course by the Government on the Review […]
Alliance Party Leader, David Ford, has welcomed the publication of ‘A SHARED FUTURE’ THE FRAMEWORK FOR GOOD RELATIONS IN NORTHERN IRELAND, and stressed that it holds the key to saving the £1 billion per year that is wasted on segregation. David Ford said: “Alliance has been pushing for a radical overhaul of community relations policies […]