Alliance Chief Whip, David Ford has condemned those who planted the bomb at the home of Moyle Sinn Fein Councillor James McGarry last night. David Ford said “Last night’s bomb in Ballycastle was an attack on one family, but was also an attack on the political process.” “Everyone has a duty to work to solve […]
Responding to a large number of approaches be concerned constituents, Alliance Assembly member Eileen Bell said that the Assembly has no right to fail. Mrs. Bell said: “The public expects us to deliver the goods, namely PEACE, plain unadulterated Peace, without conditions, pre-conditions or whatever other names the time-wasters may come up with.” “The public […]
Assembly Member Eileen Bell has welcomed the continuation of EU Funding to Northern Ireland. Mrs Bell said: “I am glad that the European Commission has recognised that Northern Ireland while not retaining our objective one status should be singled out for further funding to cover this transition period which we hope will result in a […]
Michael Long Alliance Party Youth Affairs Spokesperson addressed a Peace Conference at Brownlow Integrated College in Craigavon this morning. The theme for the Conference was preparing for our future and Mr Long said that Integrated Education would be one of the foundation stones of the kind of future he would want to build. Mr Long […]
The Alliance Party’s Consumer Affairs spokesperson Jan Campbell has called the price increase to Translink bus and train fares ‘disgraceful and outrageous’. Mrs Campbell said: “This announcement from Translink about the 4% increase is prices is simply ‘not on’, especially as only a few weeks ago the Consumer Council announced that the public were not […]
Cllr Geraldine Rice has expressed her fury that Translink have announced an increase in their fares by 4%. Mrs Rice who represents Castlereagh South has always been concerned at the level of traffic on the Southern Approaches through Carryduff , Saintfield Road and into Belfast. Mrs Rice stated that there are already approximately 5000 cars […]
Alliance Assembly Member for Strangford totally and utterly condemns the barbarous attack which was carried out on a defenseless youngster on the Glen Estate in Newtownards last night. Ald McCarthy said: “No child deserved the treatment that was meted out on the Estate last night. I call for more police personnel not only in Newtownards […]
Strangford Alliance Chair, Michael Long, condemned unreservedly the paramilitary-style attack on a 13 year old in the Quarry district of Newtownards on Saturday night. Mr Long said: “Even by the standards of these gruesome attacks, the vicious beating of a thirteen year old boy plumbs new depths. This attack upon a child by a gang […]
Castlereagh East and Strangford Alliance Chair, Michael Long, has reacted angrily to the proposed Camperdown Garden Village project, between Comber and Dundonald. The development would involve construction on greenbelt land overlapping Castlereagh and Ards Council areas. Mr Long said: “The 310 acre development proposed would undoubtedly lead to the destruction of an area of outstanding […]
Michael Long, Alliance Youth Affairs Spokesperson, has expressed his dismay at the decision by Down District Council not to support an application to increase numbers of pupils at Cedars Integrated School, Crossgar. Mr Long said: “Whilst I was not surprised at the stance of the anti-Agreement parties, I was appalled that members of the SDLP […]