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Norah Beare | |
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Member of Banbridge District Council | |
In office 7 June 2001 –5 May 2011 | |
Preceded by | William McCracken |
Succeeded by | Olive Mercer |
Constituency | Dromore |
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 by | Ivan Davis |
Succeeded by | Jonathan Craig |
Personal details | |
Born | Banbridge,Northern Ireland | 25 May 1946
Political party | DUP (2004 –present) UUP (until 2004) |
Website | Beare DUP |
Norah Beare (born 25 May 1946) 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]