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Robin Stirling

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Robin Stirling
Member of Ballymena Borough Council
In office
7 June 2001 – 5 May 2011
Preceded byDesmond Armstrong
Succeeded byBeth Clyde
ConstituencyBraid
Personal details
BornBallymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Political partyTUV (since 2007)
Other political
affiliations
DUP (until 2007)

Robin Stirling is a former Unionist politician in Ballymena, County Antrim. Having previously sat on Ballymena Borough Council as a Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) member and for a period before as a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) councillor.[1]

Background

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He was quoted as strongly opposing a visit from Irish president Mary McAleese to a Ballymena school in 2006.[2]

A former pupil of Ballymena Academy he was critical of the politics of Roger Casement,a fellow attendee of Ballymena Academy and prominent Protestant Irish Nationalist who was previously a British diplomat later executed for treason.[3]

Stirling resigned from the DUP in April 2007 in protest in the DUP's decision to share power with Sinn Féin.[4] To much surprise Stirling supported a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) councillor becoming mayor of Ballymena in 2008.[5]

He has spoken out on his views of the grammar of the English language being misused and accused former DUP colleagues of using incorrect grammar.[6]

Stirling has also stated he has little faith in a truth commission being set up for victims of The Troubles.[7]


Stirling did not seek re-election in the 2011 local government elections.

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