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- ↑ The North/South Implementation Bodies Archived 19 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine , Commissioners of Irish Lights
- ↑ Londonderry 1973-1982, Northern Ireland Elections
- 1 2 "Health sees treasurer leave party", BBC News, 6 September 2005.
- ↑ Cornelius O'Leary, Sydney Elliott and R. A. Wilford, The Northern Ireland Assembly 1982-1986: A Constitutional Experiment
- ↑ History of the DUP's Londonderry Branch, Democratic Unionist Party
- ↑ 1996 Forum Elections: Candidates in Foyle, Northern Ireland Elections
- ↑ Foyle Archived 2 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine , Northern Ireland Elections
- ↑ "Unionists to meet Apprentice Boys Governor", Belfast Telegraph , 1 April 1997