Tag Archives: Edwin Poots MLA

The New Executive

Posted on January 12, 2020 by fitzjameshorse

So Arlene Foster (DUP Fermanagh-South Tyrone) and Michelle O’Neill (Sinn Féin, Mid Ulster) are again the First Minister and Deputy First Minister. But the two junior ministers, Gordon Lyons (DUP, East Antrim) and Declan Kearney (Sinn Féin, South Antrim) will … Continue reading →

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Profile: Lagan Valley

Posted on May 1, 2016 by fitzjameshorse

The Candidates: DUP: Edwin Poots. Paul Givan. Jonathan Craig. Barbara Hale. UUP: Jenny Palmer. Robbie Butler. TUV: Lyle Rea UKIP: Brian Higginson. Conservative: Jack Irwin. Democracy First: Frazer McCammond. NILRC: Peter Dynes. Green: Dan Barros-O’Neill Alliance: Trevor Lunn. SDLP: Pat … Continue reading →

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“Spotlight”, “Nolan” and SDLP

Posted on October 8, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

At some point before the Leadership vote, I will have to blog on the contest between Alasdair McDonnell and Colum Eastwood….and just as important, other contests within SDLP. The conventional wiisdom is that divided parties do not do well. And … Continue reading →

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Wells Far Gone

Posted on April 27, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

So farewell Jim Wells. Last week, speaking as the DUP candidate for South Down, he made some comments at a hustings event. His view that children with parents in a gay relationship are more likely to be abused or neglected … Continue reading →

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Edwin, Mairtín And …Jim…And Peter Robinson!

Posted on September 25, 2014 by fitzjameshorse

Congratulations if you are old enough to know that the headline is a tip of the hat to “Abraham, Martin and John” and Smokey Robinson. So just to be clear…Edwin is Edwin Poots, DUP MLA for Lagan Valley and until … Continue reading →

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SDLP And Health

Posted on January 18, 2014 by fitzjameshorse

About ten days ago, a family friend and young mother took her 2year old child to the Accident and Emergency Department in a major hospital. The child had injured an arm and the young mother needed re-assurance that there was … Continue reading →

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Drugs…Nobody Knows Nothin’

Posted on July 2, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Titanic Centre, Justin Bieber at MTV Awards, Derry “City of Culture”, Rory McIlroy, G8 Summit…amid all the relentless good news stories being churned out by the compliant journalists in Norn Iron, there are occasional reminders that it is all a … Continue reading →

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“Hope I Die Before I Get Old”

Posted on May 1, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

As The Who put it nearly fifty years ago. My mother was in an old peoples home. She hated it. She referred to it as the ” Work House” . She died aged 90 in 2003. Depressing days as we … Continue reading →

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Alliance: Decision Time?

Posted on December 11, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

The Alliance Party are too angry to act logically at the moment. They have a right to be angry. There seems no end to the viloence…..”pogrom” they have called it……and the hyperbole is understandable. The Stormont Debate yesterday will not … Continue reading →

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That Was The Week That Was

Posted on December 7, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

A bad week……but what exactly happened? Belfast City Council meet to debate the Big Flag…..the British one which flies over the City Hall. Belfast is no linger a unionist citadel. There are fifty councillors. Sinn Féin have sixteen. SDLP eight. … Continue reading →

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