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About LinkBacksVeteran Belfast Sinn Fein Councillor, Tom Hartley was elected Lord Mayor of Belfast tonight.....with 25 votes. The Deputy Mayor will be David Browne of the UUP.
Veteran Belfast Sinn Fein Councillor, Tom Hartley was elected Lord Mayor of Belfast tonight.....with 25 votes. The Deputy Mayor will be David Browne of the UUP.
Whats he gonna do about all this flags and symbols talk? Are we gonna see all the flags, some of the flags or none of the flags?Originally Posted by ONH
Food tastes better when you put it all together! It's the one best mayonnaise!
Contratulations to Tom who I have no doubt will make an excellent Sinn Féin Mayor of Belfast.
RIRA not in my name-Traitors to Ireland MMcGuinness; People are entitled to cultural & social equality MLMcDonald; We have a length to go understanding unionism GAdams
But that's not the first sinn fein mayor ever because Alex maskey use to be mayor aswell before in belfast. :mrgreen:Contratulations to Tom who I have no doubt will make an excellent Sinn Féin Mayor of Belfast.
It wont be too long when you're right or wrong!
Good - he is a very personable character - will make a good mayor
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acht "Cromwellian dog" is focal faire againn
nó "cia súd thall" go eann gan eagla
"Mise Tadhg" géadh teinn an t-agallamh
Bodaigh an Cháise táid go hatuireach
ag filleadh ar a gcéird gach spéice smeartha aca
gan ghunna, gan chloidheamh gan pinnse chleachtadar
d'imthigh a mbrígh is tá an cridhe dá ghreada aca.[/FONT]
I am not sure that he is personable (properly so called) ....
...but he is certianly a very likeable person.
RIRA not in my name-Traitors to Ireland MMcGuinness; People are entitled to cultural & social equality MLMcDonald; We have a length to go understanding unionism GAdams
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Heavy words are so lightly thrown.
Good luck to the fella. I was on one of his speaking tours of the City Cemetery (he did them, maybe still does, as part of Feile) and he was an affable, knowledgable and thoroughly entertaining host. If he can bring a bit of that to the office of Lord Mayor, he'll be OK.
Yeah, Tom Hartely does seem like a dead on type of bloke. I really liked his enthusiasm for local history, especially when I ever saw him talking on TV about the graveyard tours. And Tom is very keen on green issues too which is great. iirc, he wanted to push for more people to get on their bikes around the city and leave their cars at home. It was a real shame, I don't think he got the support for it. The idea seemed to be in the news for a bit then it was forgot about.
Good luck to him.
Belfast is relatively flat. Cycling is a piece of piss. Unfortunately, people are too wedded to German automotive engineering, despite, in the majority of cases, them living maybe 3-4 miles from their Belfast city-centre job. (And it's not too cool to cycle the we'ans to school when there's a perfectly good Chelsea tractor in the garage).
I'd be delighted to support Tom in any cycling initiative he proposes during his year in office (despite never having been, or never likely to be, a SF voter).
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