GAA chief on new policing board [Independent.ie]
- Published: 24 May 2011
A senior GAA official is among members who will take a seat on the new-look Northern Ireland Policing Board.
Ryan Feeney, head of community development, strategy and public affairs with the Ulster Council, is one of nine independents who will join 10 MLAs on the police's independent scrutiny body. Another is Brian Rowntree, chairman of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.
They are among seven new independent members with only outgoing board acting chairman and vice chairman Brian Rea and Gearoid O H'Eara returning. Only one MLA - the DUP's Ian McCrea - was on the last board term.
He will be joined by party colleagues Jonathan Craig, Robin Newton and Adrian McQuillan, Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly, former education minister Caitriona Ruane and Pat Sheehan, Ulster Unionist Ross Hussey, Conall McDevitt of the SDLP and the Alliance Party's Trevor Lunn. Mr O H'Eara, who while not an elected representative is a member of Sinn Fein, is favourite to be appointed chairman when the board meets in private for the first time next month.
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