She returned to her family in Belfast. After standing for election with Sinn Fein in 1918, she became a member of the Socialist Party of Ireland and, later, the Northern Ireland Labour Party.

The East Belfast MP also urged support the Ulster Farmers’ Union rally on Monday evening at the Eikon Centre, Balmoral Park. Meanwhile, Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart has penned a cross-party ...

He was a regular at Belfast’s May Day marches and wrote a weekly column in Unity, the newspaper of the Communist Party. A strong supporter of socialist Cuba, in 2009 he and Margaret attended ...