Talk:Northern Ireland Assembly

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Contents 1 list of MLAs 2 Logo 3 History 4 What is the correct name of the UK's Olympic team? 5 Two minutes' silence 6 Suspension?

[edit] list of MLAs

I am think of loading the list of MLA's just as I did for Holyrood and Cardiff Bay. Should I wait until after Nov. 26th???

hoshie 08:02, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)

It might be a thought to also include on the table a column with the state of the parties immediately prior to the 2003 elections - there were several defections and to some extent the 2003 elections merely ratified these (although the individual in question did not necessarily get re-elected themselves). Timrollpickering 13:36, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Logo

I note that the logo has a very long "alt" attribute, which is bad in terms of accessibility for the visually impaired. I assume the wikimedia system just uses the caption as the alt tag - is there any way around this, short of just changing the caption to "Logo of the Northern Ireland Assembly"? Apologies if I'm asking a very obvious question. --Ryano 21:25, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Another point is that shade of Purple\Blue is the actual colour of the Flax plant flower, it was chosen because it has no other political meaning, unlike green, orange, red, blue. :: Keith :: 16:28, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

It's also the colour of the seats in the Assembly Chamber.

[edit] History

Under history should there be some brief mention of the Prior plan and 'rolling devolution'. I am just learning about NI politics but it seems as if something called a 'Northern Ireland Assembly' existed in some sense from October 1982 to May 1986. see [1] and [2] Is this correct and deserving of a sentence under Sunningdale? I could not find anything on wiki. Sjjb 20:55, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] What is the correct name of the UK's Olympic team?

Is the UK's Olympic team "Great Britain" or "Great Britain and Northern Ireland"?

see Cfd discussion: Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Great_Britain_at_the_Olympics_to_Category:Great_Britain_and_Northern_Ireland_at_the_Olympics --Mais oui! 22:31, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

"Great Britain and Northern Ireland" it is normally shortened to Great Britain when being talked about, but when the name is written in full on television\Internet graphics it is always Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Its something to do with the UK's 3 Letter ISO code which is GBR, and the two letter is GB, unlike our TLD which is unlike most countries different, .uk. - Keith Greer 12:48, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Two minutes' silence

Why does it appear that the (NI/Transitional) Assembly meetings always start with two minutes' silence? [3] Is it for attunement, like Green party meetings? – Kaihsu 22:14, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Looks like it is in the standing orders in lieu of prayers. [4] [5] – Kaihsu 22:18, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suspension?

Was suspension lifted on 26 March or not? This BBC article says, "An order signed by the NI secretary restarted devolution at midnight." Does this mean that suspension was lifted on 26 March, and then reapplied on the 27th after Paisley and Adams' announcement? --Kwekubo 14:55, 14 April 2007 (UTC)