Sport Gaelic football Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Years Club Name Gerry Carroll Alma mater Ulster University | Position Centre-forward Occupation Company representative 1970s-1990s Edenderry Role Politician | |
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Born 16 July 1958 (age 65)
Edenderry, County Offaly ( 1958-07-16 ) Party People Before Profit Alliance | ||
Gerry carroll assembly election
Gerry Carroll, is a politician from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who, since May 2014 has represented the Black Mountain district electoral area on Belfast City Council. Carroll describes himself as a "revolutionary socialist"
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Career
Carroll first came to prominence as a young activist. At the age of 16 he fundraised with fellow activists to travel to Edinburgh for the Make Poverty History protest. He contested the Belfast West by-election, 2011, triggered by the resignation of Gerry Adams for the People Before Profit Alliance, and won 7.6% of the vote. At the Belfast City Council election, 2014 he gained one of the seven seats in the Black Mountain electoral area from Sinn Fein, coming third. Following his election, he said that he does not describe himself as a nationalist or a unionist, instead choosing to identify as a socialist. He also said "There is a lot of anger in West Belfast at the minute over the situation at Royal Victoria Hospital's A&E, the privatisation of leisure centres and the Casement Park issues...residents have been trampled on" He contested Belfast West again at the 2015 general election, this time coming second, gaining 19.2% of the vote and reducing the Sinn Fein majority from 57.1% to 35.0%. During his 2015 campaign he was endorsed by civil rights campaigner Bernadette McAliskey, who condemned the failure of Sinn Fein MPs to take their seats and fight for their community.
Since being elected a Councillor, Carroll has criticised large pay rises for councillors, while other council staff have suffered effective pay cuts and campaigned against privatisation and cuts
Carroll has also criticised the sectarian nature of politics in Northern Ireland and Sinn Fein's alleged support for capitalism. In August 2014 he said "In Northern Ireland sectarianism is at the heart of the state. I don't accept that, but then again I don't accept the conservative right-wing state in the south"