{{Short description|Irish Republican politician}} {{distinguish|Sue Ramsey Johnston Ferguson}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=February 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Sue Ramsey | honorific_suffix = MLA | image = Sue Ramsey speaking at AgeNI event.jpg | image_size = | caption = Ramsey in 2012 | constituency_AM = Belfast West | assembly = Northern Ireland | majority = | term_start = 13 June 2004 | term_end = 3 November 2014 | predecessor = Bairbre de Brún | successor = Alex Maskey | majority2 = | term_start2 = 25 June 1998 | term_end2 = 26 November 2003 | predecessor2 = ''New Creation'' | successor2 = Michael Ferguson | office3 = Member of <br/> Lisburn City Council | constituency3 = Dunmurry Cross | term_start3 = 21 May 1997 | term_end3 = 5 May 2005 | predecessor3 = William McAllister | successor3 = Angela Nelson | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|08|06|df=yes}} | birth_place = Springhill, Northern Ireland | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | birth_name = | party = Sinn Féin | other_party = | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = [http://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/14962 Sue Ramsey MLA] | footnotes = }} '''Sue Ramsey''' (born 1970) is an Irish Sinn Féin former politician who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Belfast West from 1998 to 2003, and then again from 2004 to 2014.
==Early life and education== After growing up in Belfast, Ramsey studied catering. She represented the Poleglass and Twinbrook areas on Lisburn Borough Council from 1997 to 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/lglisburn.htm|title=Lisburn City Council, 1993 - 2011|website=www.ark.ac.uk}}</ref>
==Career== In 1996 she was an unsuccessful candidate in the Northern Ireland Forum election in Lagan Valley,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/96lv.htm|title=1996 Candidates - Lagan Valley|website=www.ark.ac.uk}}</ref> and failed to be elected at the next year's UK general election also in Lagan Valley, where she finished 6th out of eight candidates.<ref>{{cite web|title=Election Data 1997|url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_1997.txt|publisher=Electoral Calculus|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015054424/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_1997.txt|archivedate=15 October 2011}}</ref> Ramsey was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998 as a Sinn Féin member for West Belfast. She lost her seat at the 2003 election, when she finished 87 votes<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/03wb.htm|title=West Belfast 2003|website=www.ark.ac.uk}}</ref> behind Diane Dodds of the DUP in the closest inter-party result of the election<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/awb.htm|title=West Belfast|website=www.ark.ac.uk}}</ref> but returned to the Assembly in 2004 as a substitute for Bairbre de Brún. She was then re-elected in 2007 and 2011.
Regarding fire service in Northern Ireland, Ramsey said it was crucial that problems within the Northern Fire and Rescue Service 'need to be tackled as soon as possible’ and that it was ‘worrying that the Fire Service has been allowed to get into such a poor state of management'.<ref name="Inside Ireland">{{cite web|last=Ciarán|first=Hanna|title=Inside Ireland - Fire Service of NI in a poor state of management is 'worrying'|url=http://insideireland.ie/2012/08/14/ramsey-fire-service-of-ni-in-a-poor-state-of-management-is-worrying-78617/|work=Inside Ireland|publisher=Inside Ireland|accessdate=28 August 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102151655/http://insideireland.ie/2012/08/14/ramsey-fire-service-of-ni-in-a-poor-state-of-management-is-worrying-78617/|archivedate=2 November 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100504102959/http://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/14962 Official Sinn Féin biography]
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{{succession box | title = MLA for Belfast West | before = Bairbre de Brún | after = Alex Maskey | years = 2004–2014 }} {{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ramsey, Sue}} Category:1970 births Category:Living people Category:Politicians from Belfast Category:Sinn Féin MLAs Category:Northern Ireland MLAs 1998–2003 Category:Northern Ireland MLAs 2003–2007 Category:Northern Ireland MLAs 2007–2011 Category:Northern Ireland MLAs 2011–2016 Category:Female members of the Northern Ireland Assembly Category:20th-century women politicians from Northern Ireland Category:Sinn Féin councillors in Northern Ireland Category:Members of Lisburn City Council Category:Sinn Féin parliamentary candidates Category:Women councillors in Northern Ireland
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