Jim Wells MLA speaks at March Meeting
Jim Wells MLA was the Guest Speaker at the March Association Meeting of the DUA which was held on Wednesday 10th March at 1.30pm. Jim spoke of his time at Queen’s and touched on a number of important issues for the DUP at this time, including the upcoming General Election. A very interesting Question time then followed.
(DUA Members with Guest Speaker, Jim Wells MLA)
Congratulations also go to DUA Member Nathan Anderson, who was successfully elected as the new Vice-President of Education for the new academic term 2010/2011 in the recent Queen’s Student’s Union Executive Sabbatical Elections. This was a fantastic result for Unionism at Queen’s and especially for this Association.
Diane Dodds MEP speaks to DUA
Diane Dodds MEP, was the Guest Speaker at the February Association Meeting of the Democratic Unionist Association on Wednesday 3rd February 2010. The MEP gave a wide ranging speech on both local and European Issues, followed by a Question and Answer session with Members.
(Members pictured with Diane Dodds MEP)
Peter Weir MLA addresses DUA
North Down MLA, Cllr Peter Weir was the Guest Speaker at the December Association Meeting of the DUA. The Meeting was held on Wednesday 2nd December 2009 in the Queen’s Students Union. There was a good crowd in attendance with many new members very interested in the precedings, with many particularly enjoying the Question and Answer session.
(Pictured above are some DUA members in attendance with Peter Weir MLA.)
DUA lay wreath at QUB Act of Remembrance
Successful Fresher’s Day for DUA
The DUA enjoyed yet another successful day at the annual Queen’s University Fresher’s Bazaar on Wednesday 30th Sepetember 2009, the Association gained many new recruits, inlcuding many first year students from all around the Province. It proved to be another very worthwhile event for the Democratic Unionist Party at Queen’s.
Many Senior Party figures were in attendance at the stall throughout the day, including Deputy Leader, Nigel Dodds MP MLA, and local South Belfast MLA, Jimmy Spratt.
More Photos of the event can be seen on our Flickr Site:
Follow Diane Dodds’ Euro Election Campaign
Already our European election candidate Diane Dodds has toured all counties of Northern Ireland in advance on the 4th June poll. This has included two visits to Queen’s where she spoke to students regarding electoral registration and the importance of voter turnout.
You can keep up-to-date with Diane’s campaign by visiting the Party’s Flickr page to view her photo diary.View
Dodds outlines hopes for N.I.’s young people
I know I’m probably expected to make that argument as a politician, but I also make it as an ordinary person who lives in this community. I care passionately about Northern Ireland and I want to see democracy triumph over terror. I want us to work to build a peaceful future for everyone in Northern Ireland.”
Free Concert
Ulster-Scots Concert
– Monday 16th March 2009
– Start time 7.45pm
– GREAT HALL, QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFAST
FREE ENTRY
All welcome
Acts include:
Risin Stour – Ulster-Scots Folk group
Hounds of Ulster
There will also be a short talk given on Patrick by Gordon Lucy (Ulster Scoiety)
Public demands swift justice – Dodds
“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those so callously cut down by evil and wicked criminals over the last three days. Constable Stephen Paul Carroll, Sapper Mark Quinsey and Sapper Patrick Azimkar were brave and dedicated men who were serving our community. The criminals who murdered them were cowardly animals who lured them to their deaths and then slunk away into the shadows of the night.
The families and friends of those three brave men will, like the whole of Northern Ireland, remember them as heroes, the people who killed them will be remembered with universal revulsion and loathing. They are beneath contempt. I have no compunction whatsoever in saying that the Chief Constable needs to be given all the resources that he needs to crush these evil dissident republican groups.
All political parties have a moral imperative to support the Chief Constable in gaining access to the resources that he needs to wipe these groups out and end their capacity to murder innocent people in the way that they have over recent days. The public are utterly disgusted at the efforts of the murderers in these criminal gangs to pull Northern Ireland back into the dark days of the past. They want to see these criminals brought to justice swiftly and sent to prison for the rest of their lives. For our part, the DUP will continue to support the efforts of the police to stamp these groups out permanently.
We will not allow criminal thugs to destabilise and destroy the democratic institutions of Northern Ireland. Just as we faced down terrorism in the past, I believe we will do so again. These terrorists will quickly learn that Ulster people will not be bullied or brow-beaten by them. With such overwhelming opposition to these evildoers, it is paramount that the entire community assists the police and bring the perpetrators to justice.”