Antrim Alliance Councillor Alan Lawther has said the £60 million investment in renewables must help people across Northern Ireland to convert to environmentally friendly fuel sources to help alleviate fuel poverty. He has called for Government to lead by example in its own buildings. Cllr Lawther stated: “Although the £60 million investment in renewable energy […]

Alliance Party Vice Chair and Castlereagh Councillor Michael Long has slammed a decision by the Management Board to refuse to review a planning application at Willowbank Crescent in Castlereagh, and cited it as an example of “creeping marginalization” of locally elected representatives and the general public in the entire planning system. He has also asked […]

Alliance Party Chief Whip Kieran McCarthy MLA has said people must be certain that workers in Northern Ireland are not being exploited, after official statistics indicated that hundreds of bosses had been caught paying illegally low wages. Alderman McCarthy stated: “We in the Alliance Party have placed the economy as a central plank of the […]

Alliance Leader David Ford has condemned those responsible for the Dublin riots, and stated that they show once again the need to promote the politics of bringing people together over the politics of driving people apart. David Ford stated: “I utterly condemn those responsible for the attacks on police in Dublin. Such actions prove the […]

Dublin riot illustrates scourge of sectarianism Alliance Leader David Ford has condemned those responsible for the Dublin riots, and stated that they show once again the need to promote the politics of bringing people together over the politics of driving people apart. David Ford stated: “I utterly condemn those responsible for the attacks on police […]

Former Alliance Party Leader Sean Neeson MLA has been reappointed to represent Northern Ireland on the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in Europe, part of the Council of Europe. The East Antrim Assembly member was appointed by the Secretary of State, having already served for four years having been put on to the body […]

Alliance Party Leader David Ford has reiterated his call for parties to meet the call for an all-party economic forum. Responding to the latest jobs losses, this time in West Belfast, David Ford stated: “It is time to move Northern Ireland’s economy on from the 1970s. The issue is not that the public sector is […]

Alliance Party Health Spokesperson Kieran McCarthy MLA has hit out at the culprits of an apparent racial attack in Dundonald, saying their actions are simply unexcusable and calling for people with information to contact the police immediately. Alderman McCarthy, Assembly member for the area, stated: “The victims of racial attacks such as this one are […]

Alliance Party Leader David Ford MLA and Deputy Leader Naomi Long MLA have met with the father of UVF murder victim, Raymond McCord Jnr. The meeting forms part of Mr McCord Snr’s round of meetings with all the local political parties and with the Irish Government to highlight the alleged collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and […]

Alliance Party General Secretary Cllr Stephen Farry has argued that in their opposition to the proposal for a collective vote in the Assembly to endorse any new power-sharing Executive, the so-called moderate parties are missing the point. He said that such a measure was intended to ensure that all sides faced up to the reality […]