Alliance Finance Spokesperson Stephen Farry MLA has welcomed today’s launch of the business coalition jobs plan manifesto and its focus on improving skills, saying this is the biggest change needed to grow our economy. He also said that Alliance will be publishing their own skills policy document in the very near future. Stephen Farry MLA […]
Local Alliance Councillor Máire Hendron has condemned those involved in a knifepoint at a shop on the Castlereagh Roda in East Belfast which took place at around 6.45pm on Sunday evening. Pottinger Councillor Máire Hendron said: “I am appalled at this incident. This must have been a very frightening experience and my thoughts are with […]
Alliance East Antrim representative Cllr Stewart Dickson has condemned the attack on three police officers in Larne in the early hours of Sunday morning. The officers were dealing with a fire in the Seacourt Estate when they were attacked with stones and missiles. They were not seriously hurt. Cllr Stewart Dickson said: “I am shocked […]
Alliance Newtownabbey Councillor Tom Campbell has condemned those who left a pipe bomb in a housing development on Rashee Road in Ballyclare on Friday morning. The device did not explode but has been described as viable by the police. Cllr Tom Campbell said: “Over the previous number of days we have seen the disruption by […]
Alliance Newtownabbey Councillor Billy Webb has noted the publication of OFMDFM’s Good Relations Indicators and was encouraged that Alliance’s message on the benefits of a shared society finds favour with the vast majority of the community. Cllr Billy Webb said: “The report from OFMDFM found that 88% thought better relations between Protestants and Catholics would […]
Alliance Councillor Stewart Dickson has criticised the Health Minister Michael McGimpsey over the delay in processing 18,000 x-rays at Altnagelvin hospital. Cllr Stewart Dickson said: “I am shocked that this delay was allowed to happen. It appears that this problem was ignored and was not corrected the second a backlog started to build up. The […]
Councillor Neil Kelly has criticised the behaviour of two senior staff from Land and Property Service who arrived to speak to the Public Services Committee of Antrim Borough Council yesterday afternoon. Councillor Kelly who was chairing the meeting, said that once the LPS representatives were told that the press would be present they decided not […]
Alliance Newtownabbey Councillor Billy Webb has described a fire which broke in Rathfern Way that destroyed one house and badly damaged two others as heart breaking. The fire broke out on Thursday evening but no one was injured. The cause of the fire is unknown but it is believed a bin was set on fire […]
Alliance Newtownabbey Councillor Lynn Frazer has expressed her shock at the burglary of pensioner’s home in Mossley Crescent on Wednesday night. Two men entered his house and hit him over the legs with metal sticks before making off with a sum of money. The 70 year old man was not seriously injured. Cllr Lynn Frazer […]
Alliance East Antrim representative Cllr Stewart Dickson has expressed his anger towards those behind a pipe bomb that was found on the Ballymena Road area of Carnlough. It did not explode but has been described by police as viable. There is another suspicious object at The Roddens in Larne that is being investigated by police. […]