Sue Ramsey MLA (born 1970) is an

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Early life and education

After growing up in

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, Ramsey studied

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. She represented the

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and Twinbrook areas on

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from 1997 to 2005.

Career

In 1996 she was an unsuccessful candidate in the

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election in

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, and failed to be elected at the next year's UK general election also in

, where she finished 6th out of eight candidates. Ramsey was elected to the

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as a

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member for West Belfast. She lost her seat at the

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, when she finished 87 votes behind Diane Dodds of the DUP in the closest inter-party result of the election but returned to the Assembly in 2004 as a substitute for

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. She was then re-elected in

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and 2011. Regarding fire service in Northern Ireland, Ramsey said it was crucial that problems within the Northern Fire and Rescue Service 'need to be tackled as soon as possible’ and that it was ‘worrying that the Fire Service has been allowed to get into such a poor state of management'.

References

External links

Official Sinn Féin biography
1970 births Living people Politicians from Belfast Sinn Féin MLAs Northern Ireland MLAs 1998–2003 Northern Ireland MLAs 2003–2007 Northern Ireland MLAs 2007–2011 Northern Ireland MLAs 2011–2016 Female members of the Northern Ireland Assembly 20th-century women politicians from Northern Ireland Sinn Féin councillors in Northern Ireland Members of Lisburn City Council Sinn Féin parliamentary candidates Women councillors in Northern Ireland {{SinnFéin-politician-stub