It seems we will be saying goodbye to many political faces as the Assembly and needlessly delayed council elections approach.
The latest to fall is the unelected MLA for East Derry, former lots of things, Cllr Billy Leonard.
The declared reason from the 55yr old for leaving political life is the time required to write a book (he clearly doesn’t have the stamina of an older, prolific SF author)
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