Tag Archives: Alliance Party

Assembly Election 2022: West Belfast

Posted on April 21, 2022 by fitzjameshorse

West Belfast is a constituency comprising Falls Road, Andersonstown, Ballymurphy, Glen Road. It is mostly nationalist with small unionist areas in the Shankill area and a smaller enclave at Blacks Road. I lived in the constituency from my birth in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Aisling Reilly, Alliance Party, Aontú, Assembly Election 2022, Danny Baker, Declan Hill, Donnamarie Higgins, DUP, Frank McCoubrey, Gerard Burns, Gerard Herdman, Gerry Carroll, Green Party, Jordan Doran, Linsey Gibson, Orlaithí Flynn, Pat Sheehan, Patrick Crossan, Paul Doherty, People Before Profit, SDLP, Sinn Féin, Stevie Maginn, Tony Mallon, TUV, UUP, west belfast, Workers Party | 4 Comments

Assembly Election 2022: East Belfast

Posted on April 17, 2022 by fitzjameshorse

East Belfast is a constituency that includes prosperous areas around Knock, Belmon and Stormont and working class Protestant areas such as Lower Newtownards Road, Castlereagh Road, Woodstock and estates such as Gilnahirk and Dundonald. There is a Catholic enclave at … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alliance Party, Andy Allen, Assembly Election 2022, Brian Smyth, Charlotte Carson, Chris Lyttle, David Brooks, DUP, East Belfast, Eoin MacNeill, Green Party, Hannah Kenny, Joanne Bunting, John Kyle, John Ross, Karl Bennett, Lauren Kerr, Mairead O'Donnell, Naomi Long, People Before Profit, Peter McReynolds, Peter Robinson, PUP, Robin Newton, SDLP, TUV, UUP, Workers Party | 6 Comments

Assembly Election 2022: South Belfast

Posted on April 16, 2022 by fitzjameshorse

South Belfast is a constituency comprising areas like affluent Malone, Lisburn Road, the Queens Universityarea and the Holylands bedsit land. It also includes Ormeau, Donegall Pass and Sandy Row and suburban Carryduff. It also includes the City Hospital, Musgrave Park … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alliance Party, Aontú, Assembly Election 2022, Clare Bailey, Deirdre Hargey, DUP, Edwin Poots, Elsie Trainor, Emma Little Pengelly, Green Party, Ian Parsley, Kate Nicholl, Luke McCann, Matthew O'Toole, Paula Bradshaw, SDLP, Sinn Féin, south belfast, Stephen McCarthy, TUV, UUP | 4 Comments

Assembly Election 2022: Upper Bann

Posted on April 12, 2022 by fitzjameshorse

Upper Bann is a constituency comprising towns like Portadown, Lurgan and Banbridge as well as villages like Waringstown, Aghagallon and Derrytrasna. Currently there are five MLAs…DUP (2), UUP (1), Sinn Féin (1), SDLP (1). Previous to 2017 when it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alliance Party, Aontú, Darrin Foster, Diane Dodds, Dolores Kelly, Doug Beattie, DUP, Eóin Tennyson, Glenn Barr, Green Party, John O'Dowd, Jonathan Buckley, Liam Mackle, SDLP, Sinn Féin, TUV, Upper Bann, UUP | 6 Comments

Decade Of Half Centenaries: Direct Rule

Posted on March 30, 2022 by fitzjameshorse

As I have said many times, the Decade of Half Centenaries is much more relevant than the so-called Decade of Centenaries that the Conflict Resolutionists obliged us to commemorate in a futile attempt to tell us that we have a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alliance Party, Assembly Election 2022, decade of centenaries, Decade of Half Centenaries, Direct Rule, DUP, SDLP, UUP | 6 Comments

Bloody Sunday 1972-2022

Posted on January 30, 2022 by fitzjameshorse

This is a strange post. I have always known that I would write about Bloody Sunday. And I thought it would be a long post but actually it wont be long. Reasons…we are all familiar with the story. And I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alliance Party, Ballymurphy Massacre, Bloody Friday, Bloody Sunday, British Army, Claudy, Derry, Doug Beattie, DUP, John Hume, Johnny Mercer, Kingsmill, McGurks Bar, Paras, Sammy Wilson, Savile Report, SDLP, Sinn Féin, UUP, Widgery | 1 Comment

JeffreyMandering

Posted on January 15, 2022 by fitzjameshorse

Dual Mandate or Double Jobbing? They mean the same thing but one is much more perjorative than the other. This means a person being a member of two legislative Assemblies at the same time…ie Westminster Parliament and the regional Assemblies … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alliance Party, Assembly Election 2022, Brandon Lewis, Chris Hazzard, Claire Hanna, Colum Eastwood, Double Jobbing, Douglas Ross, Dual Mandate, DUP, East Antrim, East Derry, Fermanagh-South Tyrone, Foyle, Gregory Campbell, Ian Paisley, Jeffrey Donaldson, Lagan Valley, Michelle Gildernew MP, Paul Maskey, Sammy Wilson, SDLP, Sinn Féin, Slugger O'Toole, Sorcha Eastwood, south belfast, South Down, Stephen Farry, UUP, west belfast, Westminster | 14 Comments

Mass Rocks (Dungeon, Fire & Sword?)

Posted on December 29, 2021 by fitzjameshorse

American academics who are interested in Civil Rights rarely understand that integrated education (Catholics and Protestants) was not a basic demand in Norn Iron. Educating black and white children together was a prime demand by Civil Rights activists in Alabama … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alliance Party, Anthony Babington, Bosworth, Cardinal Wolsey, Christian Brothers, Civil Rights, Dominicans, Edmund Campion, Elizabeth I, Faith of Our Fathers, Guy Fawkes, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Integrated Education, John Fisher, Lady Jane Grey, Laudabiliter, Martin Luther, Mary Queen of Scots, Mass Rock, Norn Iron, Oliver Plunket, SDLP, Sinn Féin, Sisters of Mercy, Thomas Cranmer, Thomas More, Tudor | 2 Comments

New Years Honours List (Norn Iron)

Posted on December 29, 2021 by fitzjameshorse

About two months ago, up to 150 people in Norn Iron will have got letters from a department within the Cabinet Office in Downing Street. They will have been told that “Her Majesty the Queen” (sic) has decided to award … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alliance Party, Arlene Foster, David Ford, Deirdre Heenan, DUP, Elizabeth Windsor, Gerry Fitt, Margaret Ritchie, New Years Honours, Queen, Quintin Oliver, SDLP, UUP | Leave a comment

Councillor Carole Howard……..ex-Alliance

Posted on December 24, 2021 by fitzjameshorse

It is now ten days since Alliance Councillor Carole Howard (East Belfast) defected to Ulster Unionist Party. I had hoped to read an in depth analysis of this on Slugger O’Toole. Alas I am disappointed. Surely the defection of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alliance Party, Assembly Election 2022, Carole Howard, East Belfast, Slugger O'Toole, UUP | 8 Comments

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