Doug Beattie

Seamus Mallon: “be good ancestors as opposed to being good rememberers” #JHISS

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on July 25, 2017, 10:12 am

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SEAMUS MALLON called for people to “be good ancestors as opposed to being good rememberers” in order to move forward. He was speaking on a political panel on the opening day of the John Hewitt International Summer School along with Naomi Long, Steven Agnew and Doug Beattie, chaired by Peter Osborne.

Beattie; “So I want to ask you out on a date, a date with democracy”

Soapbox on February 22, 2017, 2:28 pm

| Readers 1899

Doug Beattie is a UUP Candidate for Upper Bann I want to ask you out on a date. There won’t be a fancy meal, no wine and no flowers – in fact on the face of it there will be nothing in the date for you but you will leave the date feeling good about yourself. This is a date with democracy and the Assembly election on 2nd March 2017. Already I can sense that many people have stopped reading, …