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Norah Beare
Spokesperson for Health and Social Services
In office
2003–2007
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for Lagan Valley
In office
26 November 2003 – 7 March 2007
Preceded byIvan Davis
Succeeded byJonathan Craig
Personal details
Born (1946-05-25) 25 May 1946 (age 77)
Banbridge, Northern Ireland
Political partyDemocratic Unionist Party (2004 – present)
UUP (until 2004)
WebsiteBeare DUP

Norah Beare (born 25 May 1946, Banbridge, County Down) is a former Northern Irish unionist politician who served as a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Lagan Valley from 2003 to 2007.[1]

She was elected as an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) candidate in the Assembly election of 2003;[2] however, she defected to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in 2004 along with Jeffrey Donaldson MP, MLA for Lagan Valley and Arlene Foster, MLA for Fermanagh and South Tyrone.[3][4]

Norah Beare worked for forty years as a secretary in a number of different companies and then became in 1997 the Personal Assistant to Jeffrey Donaldson. Beare was elected to the Banbridge, County Down council in 2001 as a UUP candidate. On Donaldson's advice she was selected as the third UUP candidate for the November 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly elections.[5]

In December 2003 she resigned, with Donaldson and Arlene Foster, from the UUP and subsequently joined the DUP in January 2004. In 2005 she was re-elected to the council as a DUP politician.[citation needed] In January 2007, Beare was not selected by the Lagan Valley DUP association to fight the next Northern Ireland Assembly elections due in early March 2007.[citation needed]

Beare was elected chairman of Banbridge District Council in 2008.[6] She is DUP Party Spokesperson for Health and Social Services.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Information Office, Northern Ireland Assembly (1 November 2003). "Northern Ireland Assembly – Biography – Norah Beare". archive.niassembly.gov.uk. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Northern Ireland Assembly Elections – Lagan Valley". ARK Northern Ireland. 7 October 2007. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
  3. ^ "DUP claims UUP defections". BBC. 22 January 2004. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
  4. ^ "The Northern Ireland Assembly". niassembly.gov.uk. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
  5. ^ McKernan, Michael; McQuade, Owen (March 2004). Northern Ireland Yearbook. Bmf Business Services. ISBN 9780953767298.
  6. ^ Paul Wilkinson (10 June 2008). "DUP'S Beare Takes the Council Hot Seat". Banbridge Leader. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
Northern Ireland Assembly Preceded byIvan Davis MLA for Lagan Valley 2003–2007 Succeeded byJonathan Craig


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