Saintfield man Martyn Todd will contest next year’s Westminster election for the Alliance Party, after he was selected to represent South Down at a special meeting on Monday night. Martyn’s selection follows a successful election season to date for Alliance in the South Down area – which saw both Patrick Clarke and Patrick Brown elected […]
Alliance East Belfast MLA, Judith Cochrane, has outlined the work she has done with Strandtown Primary School in East Belfast. Her comments were made after a letter was sent to parents of the three feeder infant primary schools around new admissions procedures. A problem has arisen as the admissions number in Strandtown is smaller than […]
Alliance Leader, David Ford, has criticised comments made by Gerry Adams at a meeting in Ennniskillen in which he described unionists as b*******s and said that equality legislation would be used as a trojan horse to gain a united Ireland. David Ford MLA said: “I am appalled and disgusted at the disgraceful comments that Gerry […]
Alliance East Antrim MLA, Stewart Dickson, has condemned a shooting which took place in Ballystrudder Gardens in Islandmagee on Friday. Two masked men entered a house, one of whom was armed with a handgun, who then fired five shots. Nobody was injured. Police are treating it as attempted murder. A car linked with the shooting […]
Councillor Andrew Muir will contest the North Down Westminster seat for the Alliance Party next year, after he was officially selected at a special meeting this month. The local Councillor – former North Down Mayor and Alliance Party Chair – will fight to gain the seat currently held by Independent Unionist Lady Sylvia Hermon, offering […]
Alliance East Belfast MLA Chris Lyttle will propose a motion in the Assembly on Monday calling for greater support from the Executive for our network of post offices. The motion received cross-party support from the DUP, UUP, SDLP, Sinn Fein and Green Party. Chris, who was the founding Chair of the Assembly Group on Postal […]
Alliance Justice spokesperson, Stewart Dickson MLA, has challenged Sinn Fein on their response to the murder of Paul Quinn in 2007. Mr Dickson was speaking ahead of an Assembly debate calling on the republican leadership to provide any information and condemned the Sinn Fein response to this case. Mr Quinn was lured to a farm […]
The Alliance Party has selected Kellie Armstrong to contest the 2015 general election representing the Strangford area. Endorsed by well-known MLA Kieran McCarthy, Kellie said she was looking forward to spreading the Alliance message of a shared future across the Strangford constituency. Kellie Armstrong said: “I’m honoured and proud to have been selected to stand […]
Alliance Lagan Valley MLA Trevor Lunn has questioned how the DUP can claim to be tolerant of other people’s culture when they continue to mock the Irish language. Mr Lunn was speaking after comments made by Gregory Campbell at the DUP’s annual conference, following which the MP for East Londonderry has received a death threat. […]
Alliance Leader, David Ford, has said that the people of East Belfast will recognise the hard work and positive message from Naomi Long at the Westminster election and re-elect her in May 2015. He was speaking following comments made at the DUP conference. David Ford MLA said: “As a Councillor, MLA and MP, Naomi Long […]