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4 unusual facts about Northern Ireland Assembly


Independent Monitoring Commission

handling claims by parties in the Northern Ireland Assembly that a Minister, or another party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, is not committed to non-violence and exclusively peaceful and democratic means, or that a Minister has failed to observe any other terms of the pledge of office, or that a party is not committed to such of its members as are or might become Ministers observing the other terms of the pledge of office.

Irish republican legitimatism

The party now contests elections to the Dail Eireann and the Northern Ireland Assembly - "partionist parliaments" in the legitimatist view - and takes up the seats it wins.

Labour Party of Northern Ireland

The Labour Party of Northern Ireland (LPNI) is a political party in Northern Ireland, formed in 1985 by a group around Paddy Devlin, a former Social Democratic and Labour Party councillor and Northern Ireland Assembly member, and Billy Blease, a member of the British House of Lords.

Slugger O'Toole

Research commissioned in the summer of 2008 by Stratagem in association with ComRes revealed that 96% of the members of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLAs) read the blog "regularly" or "occasionally".


Baron Dunleath

His grandson, the fourth Baron, was a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for the Alliance Party.

Carál Ní Chuilín

Ní Chuilín was elected in 2007 to the Northern Ireland Assembly as a Sinn Féin member for North Belfast.

Committee for Regional Development

The Committee for Regional Development is a Northern Ireland Assembly committee established to advise, assist and scrutinise the work of the Department for Regional Development and Minister for Regional Development (currently Conor Murphy).

Crown copyright

Crown copyright was also defined as subsisting "in every Act of Parliament, Act of the Scottish Parliament, Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly or Measure of the General Synod of the Church of England".

David McClarty

Until 1 January 2011 he was an Ulster Unionist Party member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (1998–present) for East Londonderry and was the Ulster Unionist Party’s chief whip at the Assembly but has since then vowed to fight future elections as an independent.

Dissident republican

They regard both (the Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast and Oireactas Éireann) in the Irish Republic as illegitimate, along with their respective police forces - the PSNI and the Garda Síochána.

Election petition

In 1982, Seamus Mallon was disqualified from taking his seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly as he was a member of Seanad Éireann, the upper chamber of the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, at the time of his election.

Executive of the 2nd Northern Ireland Assembly

Following the suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2002 a new election was called in November 2003 in hope of restoring devolution, the election saw the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin emerge as the largest parties in the Assembly.

Jim Speers

Seamus Mallon, a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1982 was disqualified because he had been a member of the Irish Seanad at the time of his election.

Northern Ireland Act 1974

The Act authorised the dissolution of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and transferred its legislative powers to the Queen in Council.


see also

Bob Stoker

He contested the Belfast South constituency in Northern Ireland Assembly election 2007 but was unsuccessful.

Northern Ireland Assembly Elections Act 2003

The Northern Ireland Assembly Elections Act 2003 (c 3) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.