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Delivering CONSTRUCTIVE OPPOSITION to the sectarian consensus!
A growing Alliance team ambitious for Northern Ireland
Read Alliance's response to the 2008 Budget and Programme for Government.
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Our team of 7 MLAs, 31 Councillors and hundreds of volunteer activists are working across Northern Ireland to build a better society:
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we're working to build a society free of segregation, sectarianism and prejudice where everyone - Catholic or Protestant, black or white, local or immigrant, rich or poor, young or old - can live their live the way they want, free from fear
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we're working to build a society where we don't need to run cap in hand to Westminster to keep our public services working; one where we empower business to generate enough wealth to fund the services we all benefit from
we're working to create a sustainable society - where our beautiful environment is cherished, where we don't spend money we don't have and where the rights of individual are not smothered by the demands of the state and big institutions
Alliance believes that Northern Ireland should be the best place to live and work in Europe - we don't accept the second rate!
Don't forget UVF Guns says Alliance
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Wed 14th May 2008
Alliance Party Justice Spokesperson, Stephen Farry, has expressed caution at the decision of the Secretary of State to despecify the UVF without exerting pressure for the decommissioning of their weapons.
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McCarthy takes Minister on tour of Strangford's worst roads
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Wed 14th May 2008
Strangford Alliance MLA Kieran McCarthy has taken Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy around the worst roads in Strangford. Mr McCarthy arranged the tour to underline the poor state of some of the roads on the Ards Peninsula. They started their tour at the A20 Portaferry Road outside Newtownards and proceeded to Greyabbey.
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Read "McCarthy takes Minister on tour of Strangford's worst roads" in full (197 words).
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Alliance delivers petition to boost Post Office Ltd
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Tue 13th May 2008
East Belfast Alliance representatives, Cllr. Naomi Long MLA and Cllr. Máire Hendron have met with representatives of Post Office Ltd. to lobby against the proposed closures of three local Post Offices at Belmont, Summerhill and Orangefield. They also delivered a petition gathered from local people which has been signed by over 1100 people.
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Fitzpatrick condemns arson attack
Mon 12th May 2008
Alliance Coleraine Councillor Barney Fitzpatrick has condemned the arson attack in Portballintrae at the weekend. A Bulgarian man's car was set on fire which then spread to another car parked close by.
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Ford welcomes Minister's assurances on bluetongue
Mon 12th May 2008
Alliance Leader David Ford has welcomed an assurance from Agriculture Minister Michelle Gildernew that she is now taking seriously the potential need for the provision of bluetongue vaccine in Northern Ireland. This assurance came when she responded to a question from Alliance MLA Kieran McCarthy in the Assembly.
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Read "Ford welcomes Minister's assurances on bluetongue" in full (175 words).
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Liberal International President looks forward to welcoming LI Congress to his Irish home town.
Sun 11th May 2008
When the 55th Congress of Liberal International gathers liberal activists and politicians together from across the world in Belfast this month, the LI President, Lord Alderdice, could be forgiven for taking particular personal pleasure in giving them a warm Irish welcome. Belfast is his home town and this year is the 10th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement which he and others negotiated together in 1998, bringing to an end not just 30 years of terrorism in this beautiful island, but arguably hundreds of years of violent political division. The Congress will take as its theme "Our Shared Future", and will explore not only the problems of addressing long-standing violent political conflict, but also the increasingly acute global problems of movement of people, minority rights and environmental degradation and threat. However given the venue and the anniversary, conflict resolution will of course attract much of the attention of delegates.
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