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Northern Ireland Assembly Opposition
The role of official Opposition (parliamentary), opposition in the Northern Ireland Assembly can be taken by larger political parties who do not participate in Northern Ireland's consociational power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive, Executive. Forming an Assembly Opposition empowers opposition parties to scrutinise the work of government, giving them financial assistance, enhanced speaking rights in the chamber and the right to chair certain Northern Ireland Assembly#Organisation, committees. While the Assembly and Executive had been in operation since 1998 and 1999, respectively (following the Good Friday Agreement), the Assembly Opposition was only established in 2016, as part of the Stormont House Agreement, Fresh Start Agreement. The opportunity was first taken by the Ulster Unionist Party and Social Democratic and Labour Party for the Assembly's Members of the 5th Northern Ireland Assembly, fifth term, following the 2016 Northern Ireland Assembly election, May 2016 assembl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opposition (parliamentary)
Parliamentary opposition is a form of political opposition to a designated government, particularly in a Westminster-based parliamentary system. This article uses the term ''government'' as it is used in Parliamentary systems, i.e. meaning ''the administration'' or ''the cabinet'' rather than ''the state''. In some countries the title of "Official Opposition" is conferred upon the largest political party sitting in opposition in the legislature, with said party's leader being accorded the title "Leader of the Opposition". In first-past-the-post assemblies, where the tendency to gravitate into two major parties or party groupings operates strongly, ''government'' and ''opposition'' roles can go to the two main groupings serially in alternation. The more proportional a representative system, the greater the likelihood of multiple political parties appearing in the parliamentary debating chamber. Such systems can foster multiple "opposition" parties which may have little in com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partition Of Ireland
The partition of Ireland ( ga, críochdheighilt na hÉireann) was the process by which the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland divided Ireland into two self-governing polities: Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland. It was enacted on 3 May 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. The Act intended both territories to remain within the United Kingdom and contained provisions for their eventual reunification. The smaller Northern Ireland was duly created with a devolved government (Home Rule) and remained part of the UK. The larger Southern Ireland was not recognised by most of its citizens, who instead recognised the self-declared 32-county Irish Republic. On 6 December 1922, a year after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the territory of Southern Ireland left the UK and became the Irish Free State, now the Republic of Ireland. The territory that became Northern Ireland, within the Irish province of Ulster, had a Protestant and Unionist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Direct Rule Over Northern Ireland
__NOTOC__ In Northern Irish politics, direct rule () is the administration of Northern Ireland directly by the Government of the United Kingdom. It was practised for 26 straight years between 1972 and 1998 during the Troubles, and has since then been temporarily applied during suspensions. The most recent period of direct rule came to an end on 8 May 2007 when power was restored to the Northern Ireland Assembly following April elections and a power-sharing agreement among major parties. Although everyday matters under direct rule were handled by government departments within Northern Ireland itself, major policy was determined by the British Government's Northern Ireland Office, under the direction of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; and legislation was introduced, amended, or repealed by means of Order in Council. Direct Rule did not mean that the people of Northern Ireland had no democratic say in how they were governed; like other parts of the United Kingdom, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Executive Of The 1974 Northern Ireland Assembly
A power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive was formed following the Northern Ireland Assembly elections of 1973. The executive served as the devolved government of Northern Ireland from 1 January 1974 until its collapse on 28 May 1974. History Elections to a Northern Ireland Assembly were held on 28 June 1973. On 21 November, the Sunningdale Agreement was reached on a voluntary coalition of pro-agreement parties, and the Executive took office on 1 January 1974. Prominent members of the executive included former Ulster Unionist Party Prime Minister Brian Faulkner as Chief Executive, then Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader Gerry Fitt as Deputy Chief Executive, future Nobel Laureate and SDLP leader John Hume as Minister for Commerce and then leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland Oliver Napier as Legal Minister and head of the Office of Law Reform. The UUP was deeply divided; its Standing Committee voted to participate in the executive by a margin of onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)
The Northern Ireland Assembly was a legislative assembly set up by the Government of the United Kingdom on 3 May 1973 to restore devolved government to Northern Ireland with the power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive made up of unionists and nationalists. It was abolished by the Northern Ireland Act 1974. History Elections were held on 28 June 1973. The Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973, which received the Royal Assent on 18 July 1973, abolished the suspended Parliament of Northern Ireland and the post of Governor and made provision for a devolved administration consisting of an Executive chosen by the Assembly. 108 members were elected by Single Transferable Vote from Northern Ireland's 18 Westminster constituencies, with 5 to 8 seats for each depending on its population. The Assembly met for the first time on 31 July 1973. Following the Sunningdale Agreement, a power-sharing Executive was established from 1 January 1974. After opposition from within the Ulster Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The 12th Northern Ireland Parliament
This is a list of Members of Parliament elected in the 1969 Northern Ireland general election. All members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons elected at the 1969 Northern Ireland general election are listed. Members Changes *November 1969: Thomas Gormley resigned from the Nationalist Party to sit as an Independent Nationalist. *19 March 1970: Desmond Boal, William Craig, Norman Laird, John McQuade and Harry West expelled from the Ulster Unionist parliamentary party. *16 April 1970: Ian Paisley and William Beattie of the Protestant Unionist Party were elected in Bannside and South Antrim to replace Terence O'Neill and Richard Ferguson respectively. *21 August 1970: Ivan Cooper, Austin Currie, Paddy Devlin, Gerry Fitt, John Hume and Paddy O'Hanlon found the Social Democratic and Labour Party. *September 1970: Lloyd Hall-Thompson joins the Ulster Unionist Party *12 November 1970: John Dunn Laird of the Ulster Unionist Party was elected in Belfast St Anne's to repla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roderick O'Connor (politician)
Roderick O'Connor (1910 – 23 January 2000) was a nationalist (Ireland), nationalist politician in Northern Ireland. O'Connor was a solicitor and a director of the ''Ulster Herald'' series of newspapers. He became active in the Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland), Nationalist Party and sat on various boards in County Tyrone. O'Connor was elected at the 1949 Northern Ireland general election for West Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency), West Tyrone, and held his seat at each subsequent election, until the Parliament of Northern Ireland was abolished in 1972. In 1958, he worked with Eddie McAteer to prevent the Nationalist Party becoming the official opposition at Stormont. When, in 1965, they finally accepted the role, O'Connor became the Opposition Chief Whip (politics), Whip and the Shadow Minister of Home Affairs (Northern Ireland), Minister of Home Affairs. In 1969, he became the final Chairman of the Nationalist Party at Stormont.Brendan Lynn, ''Holding th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Northern Ireland General Election
The 1969 Northern Ireland general election was held on Monday 24 February 1969. It was the last election to the Parliament of Northern Ireland before its abolition by the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973. Unlike previous elections that produced a large unambiguous majority for the Ulster Unionist Party, this one gave more complex results. The Ulster Unionists were divided over a variety of reforms introduced by Prime Minister Terence O'Neill and this division spilled over into the election with official Ulster Unionist candidates standing either in support of or opposition to O'Neill and a number of independent pro O'Neill Unionists standing against opposing candidates. The results left O'Neill without a clear majority for his reforms and he resigned not long afterwards. This was the first (and only) election since the 1929 general election to see changes to the constituencies. The Queen's University of Belfast seat was abolished and four new constituencies were created ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The 11th Northern Ireland Parliament
This is a list of members of Parliament elected in the 1965 Northern Ireland general election. All members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons elected at the 1965 Northern Ireland general election are listed. Members Changes *23 November 1966: Robert Wilson Porter of the Ulster Unionist Party was elected for Queen's University to replace independent MP Charles Stewart. *25 May 1967: Michael Keogh of the Nationalist Party was elected in South Down to replace Joseph Connellan. *22 March 1968: John Brooke of the Ulster Unionist Party was elected in Lisnaskea to replace his father, Basil Brooke. *16 May 1968: Albert Anderson of the Ulster Unionist Party was elected in City of Londonderry to replace Edward Warburton Jones. *6 November 1968: Richard Ferguson of the Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The party was founded in 1905, emerging from the Irish Unionist Alliance in Ulster. Under E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The 10th Northern Ireland Parliament
This is a list of members of Parliament elected in the 1962 Northern Ireland general election. All members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons elected at the 1962 Northern Ireland general election are listed. Members Changes *6 December 1962: William Kennedy of the Ulster Unionist Party replaced Joseph Morgan in Belfast Cromac. *1964: Harry Diamond and Gerry Fitt become founder members of the Republican Labour Party. *9 May 1964: Samuel Magowan of the Ulster Unionist Party replaced Brian Maginess in Iveagh. *30 June 1964: Austin Currie of the Nationalist Party replaced Joseph Stewart in East Tyrone. *3 December 1964: Basil Kelly of the Ulster Unionist Party replaced John L. O. Andrews in Mid Down. *19 June 1965: John Dobson of the Ulster Unionist Party replaced David John Little in West Down. ReferencesBiographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons {{NI elected representatives 1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leader Of The Opposition (Northern Ireland)
In Northern Ireland, the Leader of the Opposition was the leader of the largest political party in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland that was not in the government of the day. The position was eliminated in 1972 when the Stormont Parliament was abolished and replaced by direct rule from London. The current Northern Ireland Assembly has no formally recognized Leader of the Opposition. Abstentionism Through the existence of the Stormont Parliament, members of the Irish nationalist opposition often practiced a policy of abstentionism where they would run for seats in the parliament but refuse to take them if elected in order not to give legitimacy to British rule or the partition of the island and refused to accept recognition as the Official Opposition until 1965 despite the fact that they were the second party in the House of Commons in terms of seats won from 1925 until 1972 and had been tied for second with Sinn Féin (which was also abstentionist) in the first Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie McAteer
Eddie McAteer (25 June 1914 – 25 March 1986) was an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland. Born in Coatbridge, Scotland, McAteer's family moved to Derry in Northern Ireland while he was young. In 1930 he joined the Inland Revenue, where he worked until 1944. He then became an accountant and more actively involved in politics. While his brother, Hugh, became a prominent Irish republican, involved in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Sinn Féin, Eddie chose constitutional nationalist politics. He was elected as the Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) Member of Parliament for Mid Londonderry in the 1945 Northern Ireland general election. He was a founder member of the Anti-Partition League of Ireland, and became its vice chairman in 1947, then its chairman in 1953. In 1952, McAteer was elected to Londonderry Corporation, and the following year he switched to represent Foyle in the Northern Ireland House of Commons. He left the City Council in 1958, and became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
