Alliance Party opens new Derry office
'A place for constituents to meet Alliance councillors' - Cllr Rachel Ferguson
Former Alliance Party leader, David Forde, has officially opened the party’s new North West office.
The opening took place on Wednesday morning.
The office is situated at 1 Dacre Terrace, Carlisle Square, Derry.
"This is the first of two new Alliance offices planned for the western area,” said Derry City and Strabane District councillor, Philip McKinney, who is also chairperson of Alliance's Foyle Constituency Association.
Mr McKinney added: "The next new Alliance office will be in Omagh. Our Party Leader Naomi Long wants Alliance to have a presence in every part of Northern Ireland".
"The 'Alliance Surge' began in May 2029. Rachael Ferguson and I were elected to Derry-Strabane Council in 2019. We hope that voters will again return us as councillors in the May 18 and also that they will elect more Alliance councillors in Derry-Strabane".
“We will again be competing in all seven areas of the Council, just as Alliance is planning to stand in every area of all 11 Councils across Northern Ireland. Alliance is now the third biggest Party in the NI Assembly and we want to represent more voters in local Government as well,” said Cllr McKinney.
Cllr Rachel Ferguson described the new Derry office as a “ satellite office of Alliance Party HQ in Belfast".
She added: "It will be a great resource for the public, a place for constituents to meet Alliance councillors; a place where we can hold clinics for local people; and where we can hold our own Party meetings.
The office will be staffed by volunteers and initially it is open from noon to at least 2.00pm, from Monday to Friday, and we are already planning to extend these hours.
We thank Naomi for her leadership and for leading the way for this new North-West office.”