Moyle Council Elections 2011

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Moyle is the most north-easterly of the councils and stretches from the predominately Unionist Bushmills, through Ballycastle the main town and down through the Glens of Antrim which are mainly Nationalist.

There are 3 wards;

Giant's Causeway
Ballycastle
Glens

Last time out the results were as follows;

SF - 4
SDLP - 3
UUP - 3
DUP - 2
IND - 3

1 SF has since left the party (Padraig McShane)

Candidates for 2011;

Ballycastle (5 seats, 9 candidates) Joan Baird (UUP); Seamus Blaney (Independent); Donal Cunningham (SDLP); Paul Hamilton (Sinn Fein); Helen Harding (Independent); Kevin McAuley (Independent); Christina McFaul (DUP); Cara McShane (Sinn Fein); Padraig McShane (Independent).


Giant’s Causeway (5 seats, 8 candidates) Derwyn Brewster (Independent); Willie Graham (UUP); George Hartin (DUP); Sandra Hunter (UUP); Davy McAllister (DUP); Robert McIlroy (DUP); Sharon McKillop (TUV); Jacqui McVicker (UUP).


The Glens (five seats, 8 candidates) Walter Greer (DUP); Noreen McAllister (Sinn Fein); Catherine McCambridge (SDLP); Justin McCamphill (SDLP); Randal McDonnell (Independent); Margaret McKillop (Sinn Fein); Kieran Mulholland (Sinn Fein); Colum Thompson (Independent).

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Moyle has always been a place apart election-wise with as many as half a dozen Independents but recently the party machines have been putting the squeeze on.

The TUV could be in with a gulder of claiming a seat in the Causeway ward.

Can McShane hang on as an Independent in The Glens?