Sue Ramsey (born 1970) is an Irish Sinn Féin former politician who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Belfast West from 1998 to 2003, and then again from 2004 to 2014.

Sue Ramsey
Ramsey in 2012
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for Belfast West
In office
13 June 2004 – 3 November 2014
Preceded byBairbre de Brún
Succeeded byAlex Maskey
In office
25 June 1998 – 26 November 2003
Preceded byNew Creation
Succeeded byMichael Ferguson
Member of
Lisburn City Council
In office
21 May 1997 – 5 May 2005
Preceded byWilliam McAllister
Succeeded byAngela Nelson
ConstituencyDunmurry Cross
Personal details
Born (1970-08-06) 6 August 1970 (age 54)
Springhill, Northern Ireland
Political partySinn Féin
WebsiteSue Ramsey MLA

Early life and education

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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

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In 1996 she was an unsuccessful candidate in the Northern Ireland Forum election in Lagan Valley,[2] and failed to be elected at the next year's UK general election also in Lagan Valley, where she finished 6th out of eight candidates.[3] 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[4] behind Diane Dodds of the DUP in the closest inter-party result of the election[5] 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'.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Lisburn City Council, 1993 - 2011". www.ark.ac.uk.
  2. ^ "1996 Candidates - Lagan Valley". www.ark.ac.uk.
  3. ^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011.
  4. ^ "West Belfast 2003". www.ark.ac.uk.
  5. ^ "West Belfast". www.ark.ac.uk.
  6. ^ 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.
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Northern Ireland Assembly
New assembly MLA for Belfast West
1998–2003
Succeeded by
Preceded by MLA for Belfast West
2004–2014
Succeeded by