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• Our team of 7 MLAs, 32 Councillors and hundreds of volunteer activists are working across Northern Ireland to build a better society:

• 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

• 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!

• We are a growing party - join us today!

• Alliance vindicated on the devastating cost of segregation - read the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister report.

McCarthy calls for action following attack on fire fighters New! Thu 28th Aug 2008 Alliance Health, Social Services and Public Safety spokesperson Kieran McCarthy MLA has condemned the attack on two fire fighters last night in West Belfast and has called for action to prevent future attacks. The fire fighters were called out following an arson attack on an elderly women's house.
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Stormont Executive failure to meet shows disregard for public New! Wed 27th Aug 2008 Alliance Chief Whip Kieran McCarthy MLA has said that the Stormont Executive continues to be in crisis and said the DUP and Sinn Fein are displaying total disregard for the public by continuing their failure to meet over the summer.
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Ford says Sinn Fein and DUP lack the maturity to make Stormont work New! Tue 26th Aug 2008 Alliance Leader David Ford has said that Sinn Fein's threat to collapse the Assembly perfectly highlight the problems within the current Executive. His comments refer to the speech by Caoimhgín Ó Caoláin at a Sinn Fein meeting in County Cavan.
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McCarthy says DUP is in disarray over Maze New! Tue 26th Aug 2008 Alliance Culture spokesperson Kieran McCarthy MLA has said there is total confusion in the DUP over the Maze stadium issue. On one hand, Jeffrey Donaldson is talking about the cost of delaying the Maze, yet on the other many of their MLAs are fundamentally opposed to the Maze stadium plan. Jeffrey Donaldson was speaking after Belfast joined with the rest of the UK in the Olympic handover to London.

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Long hails sensible debate on Northern Ireland football anthem Fri 22nd Aug 2008 Alliance Chair Cllr Michael Long has welcomed the debate on the Northern Ireland football team's anthem and said he is pleased that the issue can be discussed sensibly and maturely. His comments follow today's News Letter story on the issue.
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Campbell concern about man missing at Mallusk landfill Fri 22nd Aug 2008 Chair of Newtownabbey District Policing Partnership Cllr Tom Campbell has expressed shock and concern at news that a man has gone missing at a landfill site in Mallusk. David Leyland, 23, who is missing works at the Biffa Waste site in County Antrim.
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McCarthy annoyed at lack of progress on hospital hygiene Thu 21st Aug 2008 Alliance Health Spokesperson Kieran McCarthy MLA has underlined his annoyance at news that some hospitals still do not meet adequate hygiene standards and said that the Minister Michael McGimpsey must take responsibility and rectify the situation immediately. His comments come as the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority called for a 'culture change' on hospital hygiene.

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Archive of earlier news stories.