| Honorific suffix | MLA |
|---|---|
| Constituency am | Belfast West |
| Assembly | Northern Ireland |
| Term start | 13 June 2004 |
| Term end | 3 November 2014 |
| Predecessor | Bairbre de Brún |
| Successor | Alex Maskey |
| Term start 2 | 25 June 1998 |
| Term end 2 | 26 November 2003 |
| Predecessor 2 | New Creation |
| Successor 2 | Michael Ferguson |
| Office 3 | Member of Lisburn City Council |
| Constituency 3 | Dunmurry Cross |
| Term start 3 | 21 May 1997 |
| Term end 3 | 5 May 2005 |
| Predecessor 3 | William McAllister |
| Successor 3 | Angela Nelson |
| Birth date | 6 August 1970 (age 56) |
| Birth place | Springhill, Northern Ireland |
| Party | Sinn Féin |
| Website | Sue Ramsey MLA |
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.
Early life and education
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
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
- ^ "Lisburn City Council, 1993 - 2011". www.ark.ac.uk
- ^ "1996 Candidates - Lagan Valley". www.ark.ac.uk
- ^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived 15 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "West Belfast 2003". www.ark.ac.uk
- ^ "West Belfast". www.ark.ac.uk
- ^ 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.