More needs to be done to support women who have suffered miscarriage, Alliance MLA Kellie Armstrong has said. The Strangford MLA, who has suffered a number of miscarriages herself, said a current storyline on Coronation Street helped highlight the issue but the grief suffered as a result is still seen as taboo in many quarters. […]
Alliance Justice spokesperson Trevor Lunn MLA has commented on reports that the couple shot in Turf Lodge on Thursday night were attacked because they refused to hand over their son. Trevor Lunn said: “It us now being reported that this couple were shot because they refused to hand over their son to these thugs. This […]
Alliance Councillor Nuala McAllister has been selected by the party to become Belfast Lord Mayor later this year. The North Belfast Councillor, who has served the area since 2014, will take up the role in June for a year under the party’s d’Hondt allocation. The 28-year-old will become the first Alliance Lord Mayor since current […]
Alliance Justice spokesperson Trevor Lunn MLA has condemned the shooting of a man and woman in the Turf Lodge area of Belfast. Trevor Lunn said: “Yet again we see guns on the streets of Belfast. There can be no justification for this type of attack and whoever was behind it needs to be condemned without […]
Alliance Health spokesperson Paula Bradshaw MLA has said the Executive are “playing with people’s lives” after it was revealed a plan to tackle waiting list times has been shelved thanks to political uncertainty. The Health Minister Michelle O’Neill announced there was no Budget agreed for the elective care plan, due to the ongoing crisis related […]
Alliance Belfast Councillor Emmet McDonough-Brown has said while the restoration of Irish language funding by the Communities Minister is welcome, it must not be allowed to distract from the DUP’s pledge to hold an independent inquiry into the RHI scandal. The South Belfast Councillor was speaking after Paul Givan announced he had identified the necessary […]
The DUP and Sinn Fein are like a divorcing couple, angrily storming off while abandoning their children, Alliance Leader Naomi Long has said. Mrs Long was speaking after a meeting with Secretary of State James Brokenshire, in which she laid out her party’s belief the people of Northern Ireland would suffer the most under the […]
Alliance Ards and North Down Councillor Scott Wilson has called for the installation of a new pedestrian crossing on the Belfast Road, close to Abbey Street. Councillor Wilson said: “This stretch of the Belfast Road has proven to be dangerous for residents with a young woman injured in an accident last week. I send her […]
Naomi Long MLA has said Arlene Foster’s call for an inquiry into the RHI scandal is “too little, too late” by the former First Minister. The Alliance Leader said Mrs Foster had the opportunity to initiate an independent inquiry under the Inquiries Act and step aside in December, but her failure to do so had […]
Alliance Councillor Neil Kelly has expressed his delight at delivering on yet another election pledge, after a vote to introduce Sunday opening at recycling centres in Antrim was passed by the local Council. The move, which needs to pass full Council at the end of January, comes only weeks after Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council […]