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Press | Alliance Party News —Alliance Party News HomeAbout Alliance News Archive Press Homophobia is shameful sear on society: Long By Alliance Party News5 November 2009Press Alliance Deputy Leader Naomi Long has congratulated the Rainbow Project on its 15th birthday and said that anti-homophobia week is important in helping gainsay prejudice.. She attended the event to mark the project’s birthday in the Long Gallery at Stormont. Naomi Long MLA said: “Homophobia is a sickening and shameful sear on our society. For Northern Ireland to have a shared future we need to gainsay all forms of intolerance. Prejudice breeds prejudice and we won’t be worldly-wise to create a respectful and welcoming society if we don’t tackle it in all its forms. “The Rainbow Project have a strong and proud history and I want to wish all involved a happy 15th birthday. Holding an anti-homophobia week provides an extremely important platform from which we can write and wrestle prejudice. “Everyone’s the same irrespective of sexual orientation and no one should overly have to wits intimidation or discrimination. I want to hear all parties say this and prove that Northern Ireland is leaving prejudice in the past.” ENDS Time for unity, time for hope: FORD By Alliance Party News21 March 2009Press Time for unity, time for hope Speech by David FORD at Alliance Party Conference 21 March 2009 It is unchangingly a pleasure to welcome Conference here to Dunadry, to South Antrim. That welcome is, however, tinged with sadness this year as we reflect on the events of two weeks ago. On Saturday 8 March, Antrim hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons, with the murders of Sappers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinzey. ReadIncreasinglyEurope: Time for the politics of hope By Allan LEONARD21 March 2009Press Europe: Time for the politics of hope Speech by Ian James PARSLEY at Alliance Party Conference 21 March 2009 After my unanimous endorsement by Party Council, I pledged to be the ‘Unity Candidate’ at this election. I am proud to be the party’s candidate at this referendum considering both the Alliance Party and the European Union represent the things I stand for. For my generation, the union of Europe as represented by the fall of the Berlin Wall was the defining political moment — and we still need to bring lanugo walls here at home. ReadIncreasinglyTransfer to secondary schools: LUNN By Allan LEONARD21 March 2009Press Transfer to secondary schools: LUNN Speech by Trevor LUNN on motion at Alliance Party Conference 21 March 2009 I don’t think I need to go over the events of the last two years which have led to the persistent impasse in our education system. Caitriona Ruane has led from the front, unswayable to implement Sinn Féin policy ably assisted increasingly recently by John O’Dowd and the immoveable object of the DUP has stood in their way, mainly in the person of Mervyn Storey, although the real tampon is at Executive level. Personally, I believe that O’Dowd, Mervyn Storey and myself could sort it out but we won’t get the chance. ReadIncreasinglyGreen road to recovery: FARRY By Allan LEONARD21 March 2009Press Green road to recovery: FARRY Speech by Stephen FARRY on motion at Alliance Party Conference 21 March 2009 The Northern Ireland Executive did not rationalization the current global economic downturn.Planethe Alliance Party would concede that. Indeed, many of the solutions lie vastitude their reach and scope. ReadIncreasinglyAlliance welcomes NIO move on ASBOs By Alliance Party News7 January 2004Press Alliance Party Justice Spokesperson, Stephen Farry, has welcomed the utterance by NIO Criminal Justice Minister John Spellar of typhoon proposals for the megacosm of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders in Northern Ireland. Dr Farry stated: “The introduction of these measures was a significant plank in our recentTurnoutManifesto. “There is a groundswell of support among the police, district Councils and some public sector agencies for the introduction of these orders into Northern Ireland. “Most elected representatives are inundated with complaints from residents, particularly the elderly and other vulnerable people, well-nigh persistent anti-social behaviour. Problems can include: youths hanging virtually and stuff loutish, vandalism and criminal damage, drunken behaviour and underage drinking, harassment of residents or passers-by. At times, it is not each individual incident that causes the problem, but the rapid unifying of a number of similar incidents. “In Northern Ireland, when the police and courts do not have the powers to tackle these problems, paramilitaries often try to exploit the resultant vacuum. “Anti-Social Behaviour Orders have been used to some effect in Great Britain since 1999. Home Office research published in 2002 found that the orders had delivered real improvements in the quality of life in numerous communities.” Just whom does Trimble speak for? Bell By Alliance Party News28 January 2003Press Questioning David Trimble’s right to exclude a large majority of the electorate from current negotiations, Eileen Bell, Alliance Deputy Leader, said: “When one thinks well-nigh it, Trimble wants to restrict what he sees as the only meaningful talks to the two governments (neither of which has any mandate from the people here ), Sinn Fein and his own party. Between them they received less than 39% of the total vote in the lastTurnoutreferendum so exactly whom are they speaking for? “The situation is plane worse than the percentages represent. The UUP received 21.28% of the vote, but has since expelled one turnout member and suspended another! “The talks this week at Stormont would represent over 69% of the electorate if the UUP were to join the other pro-agreement parties who are once attending! Surely, on that understructure alone, the UUP are under an obligation to shepherd if, as they claim, they really want the try-on to work! “They are moreover an obligation, I would suggest, to discuss other very important issues, such as Equality, Victims and Human Rights, plane though they don’t think they really matter! “I would remind Mr. Trimble that he was only First Minister considering of the temporary support of myself and two other members of my party, yet we don’t warrant a place at the big table!” ← Older posts Archives June 2014 March 2014 April 2011 April 2010 November 2009 September 2009 March 2009 May 2005 January 2004 January 2003 August 2002 March 2002 May 2001 November 2000 October 2000 February 1999 December 1998 November 1998 October 1998 September 1998 August 1998 July 1998 June 1998 May 1998 April 1998 March 1998 February 1998 January 1998 December 1997 November 1997 October 1997 September 1997 March 1997 February 1997 November 1996 March 1995 Categories Alliance News Alliance Youth Biographies Elections Policy Press Press Coverage video threshing upkeep Civic Forum Civil Rights Association climate transpiration polity relations Conservatives powerlessness DOE economy education referendum employment energy environment equality Euro European Union finance Good FridayTry-onhealth homophobia housing justice language military Multi-Party Talks murder New Ulster Movement Northern IrelandTurnoutNorthern Ireland Forum Northern Ireland Labour Party obituary parades peace process policing poverty power sharing public transport rates sport SunningdaleTry-onUUP violence womenMeta Register Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.com Blog at WordPress.com. 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