Sue Ramsey

Sue Ramsey
MLA
Ramsey in 2012
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for Belfast West
In office
13 June 2004 – 3 November 2014
Preceded by Bairbre de Brún
Succeeded by Alex Maskey
In office
25 June 1998 – 26 November 2003
Preceded by New Creation
Succeeded by Michael Ferguson
Personal details
Born (1970-08-06) 6 August 1970
Springhill, Northern Ireland
Political party Sinn Féin
Website Sue Ramsey MLA

Sue Ramsey MLA (born 1970) is an Irish Republican politician.

Early life and education

After growing up in Belfast, Ramsey studied catering. She represented the Poleglass and Twinbrook areas on Lisburn Borough Council from 1997 to 2005.[1]

Career

In 1996 she was an unsuccessful candidate in the Northern Ireland Forum election in Lagan Valley.[2] Ramsey was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998 as a Sinn Féin member for West Belfast. She lost her seat at the 2003 election, when she finished 87 votes[3] behind Diane Dodds of the DUP in the closest inter-party result of the election[4] but returned to the Assembly in 2004 as a substitute for Bairbre de Brún. She was then re-elected in 2007 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’.[5]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/lglisburn.htm
  2. ↑ Northern Ireland elections
  3. ↑ http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/03wb.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/awb.htm
  5. ↑ Ciarán, Hanna. "Inside Ireland - Fire Service of NI in a poor state of management is 'worrying'". Inside Ireland. Inside Ireland. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
Northern Ireland Assembly
New assembly MLA for Belfast West
1998–2003		 Succeeded by
Michael Ferguson
Preceded by
Bairbre de Brún		 MLA for Belfast West
2004–2014		 Succeeded by
Alex Maskey


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