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Armagh Election 2022 Newry Politics South Armagh

TUV Announce Newry and Armagh Assembly Candidate

TUV have announced that Keith Ratcliffe will contest Newry and Armagh for the party in the Assembly election. Keith is a native of Laurelvale and is active in the Loyal Orders, serving as Deputy Master of Kilcluney Temperance Volunteers LOL 132 and Worshipable Master of Erin’s First Royal Blues RBP 1, Trandragee. He has run […]

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Politics

Standing Up to Sinn Fein: Doing It By The Book! – TUV

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “During yesterday’s Finance Committee (3rd January) Sinn Fein MLA Maoliosa McHugh objected to a copy of Conspicuous Gallantry, Anthony Leask’s book on the service of the men and women of 8th (Co Tyrone) Battalion of the UDR, being in my study. “Like Mr McHugh I was taking part in […]

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Politics

Protocol Impacting Supply of HTR Medical Supplies to Northern Ireland -TUV

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “After being contacted by a constituent who was concerned about the availability of Utrogestan 100mg capsules in North Antrim and East Londonderry I wrote to the Health Minister asking why there  was an issue in sourcing this product from Great Britain. “Minister Swann has advised that there is an issue […]

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Armagh Newry Politics South Armagh

“Unionism Must Win the Protocol Battle, or Lose the Union!” – TUV Newry and Armagh

Speaking to Newry & Armagh TUV Annual Dinner on Saturday night Jim Allister warned the Government that weakening on the Protocol would store up destabilising pressures on the very institutions which the Protocol dishonesty claims to protect. “I can think of no quicker and more assured way to alienate Unionists even more from the failing […]

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Politics

TUV Challenges Executive Decision on Mandatory Vaccine Passports

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: The Executive’s decision to press ahead with mandatory Vaccine Passports, which I believe is wrongheaded both in focus and effect, must be brought to the Assembly for an early vote. The common practice of voting on these proposals weeks after implementation won’t do. I welcome the First Minister – […]

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Politics

The Urgency of Defeating the Protocol – TUV

Speaking at an anti-Protocol meeting in Mountfield Orange Hall, Omagh on Friday night, TUV leader Jim Allister warned the more the Protocol was allowed to bed in the more economic and constitutional damage was being done. Hence, he warned, “the folly of any laissez faire approach which springs from the fundamental mistake of the DAERA […]

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Health Politics

Health Crisis Comes With a “Made in Stormont” Stamp – TUV Upper Bann

Statement by TUV Upper Bann candidate Darrin Foster: “The current pressures our health service is under, which are particularly stark here in Upper Bann with ambulances being diverted away from Craigavon Area Hospital, cannot be divorced from decisions made in Stormont. “Since devolution returned in 2007 we have reduced the number of hospital beds by […]

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Politics South Down

Councillor Harold McKee Joins TUV

Following his resignation from the Ulster Unionist Party Mournes Councillor Harold McKee wishes to express his gratitude to the vast number of people who have wished him well on his departure from the Ulster Unionist Party and his political direction into the future. Since making his resignation announcement public, Councillor McKee has received an overwhelming […]

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Election 2022 Lurgan Politics Portadown

TUV Announce Upper Bann Candidate

TUV have announced that Darrin Foster will be the party’s Upper Bann candidate in next year’s Assembly election. Announcing his candidature Mr Foster said: “A native of Derrylee between Portadown and Dungannon I grew up in a traditional family and attended Killicomaine Junior High and Craigavon Senior High schools. After completing my education I started […]

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Armagh Newry Politics South Armagh

Shocking Admission of Blind Eye Approach to Provos’ Crimes – TUV Newry and Armagh

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “The article in yesterday’s Irish Times by former Irish Justice Minister Michael McDowell in which he writes that “In this State[the Republic], a de facto moratorium on investigation and prosecution of IRA members (other than those described as dissidents) came into operation” is a shockingly open admission of the […]