Gordon Lyons

The Alliance Party's deputy leader, Owen Tennyson, wants anyone caught trying to coerce, change or suppress someone's sexual orientation or gender identity to face up to two years in prison.

The community's minister, Gordon Lyons, says the wording of the bill is so loose it could catch worried parents, church pastors and teachers.

With less than a year left in this Assembly's term, and let's face it, The Assembly actual business completes around about March next year, ahead of the May election.

That's down the road.

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Owen Tennyson is with us and Gordon Lyons from the DUP, the Communities Minister.

Welcome to both of you.

níl an ach daith fan gaid da bharlan sin ag mar a thacíon daithid is a caithir fan gaid so caith go bheal sead e gaiardhín níus jarfí leith na géal agus sa túiscart níus sa chodjarfa cíorna is a tá sead sa jéscart

As you said Céilidh, how does it feel to be a part of the Irish language community in your country? There was a story about this story and the kind of support that was given to it when it was said that it was the only way to do it when Gordon Lyons, Darlene Weenie and Dú Tágra were doing an animation film together.

And it was also said that Céilidh Archibald was very happy to be a part of that relationship with Howard Sloane.

How is this relationship going to be in the future?

Yeah, good morning, Stephen.

Stephen, we could be discussing the High Court judge's statement in court last week that the DUP community's Minister Gordon Lyons was acting irrationally unlawfully in relation to an Irish language strategy.

You could have decided this morning to be discussing the deeply disturbing scandal at Midden East Antrim Council, which should be leading to a transparent media investigation into the former DUP.

Council Chief Anne Donaghy and her relationship...

Well, he told officers that on the direction of Anne Donaghy, he asked to get the Greg McKeen email deleted.

And he said that she, Anne Donaghy, had also asked him to delete the emails sent to the DUP mayor at the time, Peter Johnson, and the DUP MLA Gordon Lyons.

What's more, according to the prosecution today, Aaron McClelland told police that he'd been aware that Jayne Logan's Livescribe pen had been recording when they arrived at her desk.

Now, remember, she said that she had no idea.

So she sent the email on a Saturday, that was at the end of January 2021, and in the days that followed she copied it to, and here's the list, Ian Paisley, then DUP MP, Sammy Wilson, DUP MP, Jeffrey Donaldson, then DUP MP, Edwin Poote, DUP MLA, then Agriculture Minister.

Gordon Lyons, DUP MLA.

He wasn't a minister yet, but he is at the point of recording.

Peter Johnson, then DUP Mayor of Mid-East Antrim Council.