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Tom Hartley (politician)
Tom Hartley (born 1945 or 1946) is a historian and Irish republican politician. Hartley grew up in the Falls Road, Belfast, Falls Road area of Belfast and became a republican activist in the late 1960s. In 1970, he was imprisoned in the Crumlin Road Prison, Crumlin Road gaol for ten months for riotous behaviour; he was again detained in 1978. During the 1981 Irish hunger strike, Hartley chaired the Prisoner of War, POW Committee.Sinn Féin's Tom Hartley elected Mayor of Belfast , ''An Phoblacht'', 5 June 2008 Hartley became active in Sinn Féin, serving as the General Secretary in the mid-1980s and the Chair in the early 1990s. In 1993 Northern Ireland local elections, 1993, he was elected to Belfast City Council for the Lower Falls (District Electoral Area), Lower Falls and has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Rodgers (politician)
Jim Rodgers OBE is a politician from Northern Ireland who was previously the High Sheriff of Belfast, (succeeded by Incumbent Alderman Thomas Haire 16 January 2017) the judicial representative of the sovereign in Belfast. He is an elected Ulster Unionist Party Councillor and appointed Alderman at Belfast City Council. Work In 1973, he stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party in the election to the Northern Ireland Assembly. In 1996, he was elected to the Northern Ireland Peace Forum for East Belfast. Rodgers stood in the 1998, 2003 and 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly elections for East Belfast but was unsuccessful on each occasion. He is a councillor for Ormiston DEA on Belfast City Council and was elected as Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2001. Rodgers was again elected Lord Mayor in 2007, he had the backing of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) group on the council and the Social Democratic and Labour Party The Social Democratic and Labo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |