Robin Stirling
Robin Stirling | |
|---|---|
| Member of Ballymena Borough Council | |
| In office 7 June 2001 – 5 May 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Desmond Armstrong |
| Succeeded by | Beth Clyde |
| Constituency | Braid |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland |
| Party | TUV (since 2007) |
Other political affiliations | DUP (until 2007) |
Robin Stirling is a former Unionist politician in Ballymena, County Antrim. Having previously sat on Ballymena Borough Council as a Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) member and for a period before as a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) councillor.[1]
Background
He was quoted as strongly opposing a visit from Irish president Mary McAleese to a Ballymena school in 2006.[2]
A former pupil of Ballymena Academy he was critical of the politics of Roger Casement,a fellow attendee of Ballymena Academy and prominent Protestant Irish Nationalist who was previously a British diplomat later executed for treason.[3]
Stirling resigned from the DUP in April 2007 in protest in the DUP's decision to share power with Sinn Féin.[4] To much surprise Stirling supported a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) councillor becoming mayor of Ballymena in 2008.[5]
He has spoken out on his views of the grammar of the English language being misused and accused former DUP colleagues of using incorrect grammar.[6]
Stirling has also stated he has little faith in a truth commission being set up for victims of The Troubles.[7]
Stirling did not seek re-election in the 2011 local government elections.
References
- ^ Ballymena Borough Council councillors Archived 6 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ DUP man loves Dublin Nuzhound
- ^ "Casement:Traitor or patriot?" BBC News 6 August 2006 retrieved 5 May 2012
- ^ Two more councillors leaving DUPBBC News
- ^ Stirling says back PJ for mayors job Ballymena Times
- ^ Stirling Grammar school selection not helping grammar Ballymena Times
- ^ Truth commission will mean 'bodies on streets' The Newsletter
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