Alliance Party Chief Whip Kieran McCarthy MLA has condemned hoax security alerts and the disruption they cause following one in Londond erry and another Lurgan today. In Derry the Army carried out a controlled explosion on an object found close to a school at Moss Park in the Shantallow area and in Lurgan the hoax […]
Strangford Alliance MLA Kieran McCarthy has expressed deep sadness at news that a 15-year-old girl was found dead at Glenford Park in Newtownards early on Monday. Kieran McCarthy MLA said: “This is deeply tragic news and it will have shocked the whole community in Newtownards. I wish to offer my deepest sympathies to the family […]
East Belfast Alliance MP Naomi Long has written to the Environment Minister Edwin Poots to call for a full and independent investigation into all incidents where it has been claimed that tiles have been blown off the roof of buildings by planes landing or taking off from Belfast City Airport. She also wrote to the […]
Alliance Party Finance Spokesperson, Stephen Farry MLA, has corrected claims made by the Chair and members of the Assembly’s Agriculture Committee that the £60m disallowance imposed by the European Union will only affect future farm subsidies and farmers and clarified that it is a fine on the Department to be funded from general expenditure. Stephen […]
Castlereagh Alliance Council Group Leader Geraldine Rice has welcomed news that that the Council has given the go ahead for an independent inquiry at Castlereagh Council in light of the Iris Robinson issue. Cllr Geraldine Rice said: “I am pleased that this independent inquiry is to go ahead as the public deserve to see a […]
Alliance Representative Maíre Hendron has condemned an incident in which a man was shot in the leg in West Belfast last night. A 23-year-old was shot once in the right leg in the Glen Road area shortly before 11pm on Tuesday night. Cllr Maíre Hendron said: “This was an appalling attack and I cannot fathom […]
North Down Alliance man Andrew Muir has welcomed progress in relation to the ongoing problem concerning the Sewage Smell emanating from the Kinnegar Sewage Plant area. Andrew Muir, Chairperson of the Alliance Party in North Down, has been campaigning to secure an end to the Sewage Smell from Kinnegar Sewage Plant, and the area that […]
Alliance Party group leader Councillor Tom Campbell condemned the DUP for doing a deal to secure former UPRG Member Tommy Kirkham’s vote at Newtownabbey Council’s AGM last night and for the third year in a row denying non unionists all senior posts on the council including those of Mayor, Deputy Mayor and the chairman and […]
Foyle Alliance Party Representative Keith McGrellis has expressed revulsion at news of a pipe bomb attack on a house in the Ardgrange area of Londonderry. The attack happened shortly after midnight on Tuesday and a family who were inside the house at the time were uninjured. Keith McGrellis said: “This was a sickening attack. A […]
Alliance Party Finance Spokesperson, Stephen Farry MLA, has attacked the complacency of the DARD Minister, Michelle Gildernew and other elected representatives over the £60m European Union fine over wrongfully claimed farm payments, stressed the deep financial implications of this fine, and called for a focus on sorting out the problem rather than lambasting Europe. Stephen […]