Upper Bann
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Search complete. 2 mentions across 2 episodes found for "Upper Bann".
Sep 3, 2026
Stormont, Hospital Closures & Parades Commission: Claire Sugden Interview | Stormont Sources
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28:29Michael McKernanPANELIST
Carla Lockhart would have been ten.
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28:33Michael McKernanPANELIST
And we Johnny there in Upper Ban would have been scarcely out of nappies.
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28:40Michael McKernanPANELIST
So maybe as they think they're promoting maybe another kind of community won't, you know, punch up.
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28:47Michael McKernanPANELIST
They don't realize maybe how serious it was in the past.
Drumcree: What it Means for the DUP, Sinn Féin & the Parades Commission
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16:19Michael McKernanPANELIST
Uh, but politically, what they're really doing is they're commencing a culture war and, and escalating the culture war in preparation for the May election.
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16:29Michael McKernanPANELIST
And the leader of this movement is Carla Lockhart, the Upper Bann MP, who of course opposed the cross-community march on behalf of Palestine, uh, and found herself among all sorts of disreputable types in, in Scarva, where she said her, um, her involvement was designed entirely to avert an absolute bloodbath.
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16:55Michael McKernanPANELIST
So she moves on from Scarva, has a swipe at a chip van that played an inappropriate song during the fly, and now she's onto, um, loudhailer politics, uh, dog whistle politics, tribal politics on Drumcree, a, a, a matter that most people thought was dead and buried.
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17:13Michael McKernanPANELIST
And the only question we have to ask ourselves is, obviously, is this a ploy to, to, uh, you know, to raise consciousness among former DUP supporters? The party's been tanking in the polls.