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Gerry Carroll is an MLA for People Before Profit in West Belfast. He sits on the health committee at Stormont and has been an MLA since 2016.
Gerry has been a leading advocate for workers voices during the last 2 years and he has been at the forefront of standing with workers on picket lines across Belfast.
At Stormont, Gerry has proposed to undo Thatcher’s anti-union laws via the Trade Union Freedom Bill, cut and freeze rents and challenged the Stormont Executive’s failure to protect people during Covid or to stand by them in a cost of living crisis.
t: 028 902 316 28
Amanda Doherty is an activist, artist, and actor originally from Derry City.
Amanda is an advocate for working class people and is particularly passionate about women’s rights, LGBTQIA+ allyship, and anti-racism activism.
Using art as medium to inspire social change she has created film and theatre on issues such as a women’s rights to choose, Magdalene Laundries, and the mental health crisis within Northern Ireland.
Amanda first became involved with socialist politics in 2003, leading her school in protests against the invasion of Iraq and continues to stand for socialist values today.
Alongside her art, she is also a PhD candidate at Queen’s University, Belfast, and a proud member of the trade unions UCU and Equity.
t: 079 081 00313
Fiona Ferguson is a People Before Profit Councillor for the Oldpark area in North Belfast. She is standing to be an MLA for the entire North Belfast community, where she was born and raised.
Fiona has a tireless record of standing up for workers and local services. She has fought for the future of the Mater hospital, campaigned successfully for hundreds of thousands of pounds for welfare advice services, and consistently challenged Stormont’s neglect of working class communities.
Carol Gallagher was born in 1971 and raised in the Ballycolman Estate, Strabane, against a backdrop of the Troubles, historical social deprivation and high unemployment. She is the daughter of working parents. Her late father was a well-known butcher and her retired mother was a lunchtime supervisor at a local primary school. She was a first-generation university student in 1994.
She initially worked as a primary school teacher before being employed with the Western Educational Library Board as a project development officer for intercultural education, raising awareness of diversity. Since 2003, she has been employed on a series of short-term contracts on initiatives around Drugs Education, Traveller Education, Extended Schools, supporting Teacher Training and Special Educational Needs.
As a single parent, reliant on precarious employment, Carol has first-hand experience of the inequalities faced by ordinary working people, including the rising cost of living crisis and welfare cuts; as well as the challenges facing those in rental accommodation and the underfunded NHS.
Since joining People Before Profit, she has actively campaigned to create a healthier, fairer and more democratic society where people and planet are placed above all else. She has been involved in movements for improved workers’ rights and conditions, opposed cuts to welfare and education systems, advocated for an All-Ireland NHS and opposed sectarianism, and the environmentally damaging toxic mining plans of greedy multinationals. She helped organise the first-ever Omagh Pride protest in 2021 and is a steadfast advocate of women’s rights and initiatives to tackle gender-based violence.
Shaun Harkin is a Derry City and Strabane District Councillor who is contesting the Foyle constituency for People Before Profit.
He is challenging the Stormont Executive parties, claiming they are not protecting working people.
Shaun says, “Instead of supporting progressive demands, the Executive has consistently blocked them and enforced the reactionary status quo. This is the case when it comes to the right to choose, real pay rises for workers, climate action, racial equality and addressing the spiralling housing crisis.
“Promises to address structural inequality in Derry and the North West continue to be broken. It’s shameful that 30% of people in Derry struggle below the poverty line. We have the largest number of people on the housing waiting list.
“The commitment to expand Magee to 10,000 students has once again been ripped up. Executive parties wave around their newfound environmental credentials but they couldn’t even deliver the Derry-Coleraine rail upgrade or start the clean-up of the toxic Mobuoy dump. All this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the failure to deliver for people here.”
I am pleased to announce that I have been selected as the candidate for South Tyrone and Fermanagh in the May Assembly Elections for People Before Profit. I am an eco-socialist working class activist who has felt compelled to stand up in recent years and join the fight against the failures of our political system, which has now gotten to the stage it is impacting on most of us in our daily lives.
Politics is a serious business, and for too long the Executive parties have relied on the perception that they are representing what is important to us, whilst in real time we the people are feeling the impact of the failures that comes from those elected not doing their jobs for society’s benefit.
The Cost of Living Crisis we are experiencing right now, with unsustainable energy and electric prices, is a direct symptom of the Executive Parties intransigence when it comes to protecting our society’s most vulnerable. It is time we the working class send a loud message to those paid handsomely to protect us, that we have had enough, and that it’s time to take our politics seriously.
Its time we elect representatives who live in the real world, and who see and feel the struggles that are taking place right now, whether it be workers’ rights, a failing NHS, the housing crisis or the mental health struggles NI has, which is the highest in the UK, and which has only been deepened by MLAs inability to run NI efficiently so we have the services to help people when it’s needed.
No matter what, please register to vote before the 14th of April, so we can show our children that we can and HAVE TO do better than this, for everyone’s sake.
Hannah Kenny is an east Belfast activist who has worked in the social housing sector for the last ten years. Before that she worked as a historic building conservation consultant, working in Nepal, Afghanistan, and America, among other places. She is passionate about the preservation of the built and natural environment and the creation of environmentally sustainable and life-enhancing communities where people can flourish. She is recognised for her work around driving up standards in social housing design.
Hannah is an active campaigner on issues around social justice, inequality and anti-racism. She has a strong record in advocating for unity, diversity and inclusion and is passionate about working to eliminate inequality and disparity so as to create a more socially just society for the benefit of everyone.
Jerry Maguire is a socialist activist and member of People Before Profit. Over the last number of years, Jerry has played a leading role within the Trade Union movement, in particular, helping to organise workers in the Hospitality Industry.
Jerry, himself, having worked within hospitality knows first-hand of the low-paying & precarious nature that many workers face, across the north.
Jerry has been a tireless campaigner on a range of issues including anti-racism, anti-sectarianism, climate justice and supporting & empowering working class communities.
t: 079 857 10268
Paul McCrory is a socialist activist within People Before Profit, who has played key roles in organising and assisting campaigns across the North. From standing against the brutal implementation of Welfare Reform on working class people, to rallying against the destruction of our environment by exploitative companies, Paul is embedded in local grassroots activism. When it comes to campaigns of global solidarity, he has been involved in movements supporting Palestine, refugees, Black Lives Matter and the fight against the global Climate Crisis.
Paul has been a ardent supporter of Trade Union action in the fight for workers rights and better pay in the face of stagnating wages and the increased cost of living.
As a principled socialist, anti-racist and anti-sectarian activist, Paul is a strong advocate for working class unity as a way forward – against the divisions inherent of a capitalist system.
t: 078 990 57232
Sophia McFeely is a 25 year old socialist. She is an prominent member of Alliance for Choice Derry and a passionate activist in People Before Profit. Sophia has spent time on picket lines supporting workers rights, organised rallies and events fighting for mental health services, LGBTQ+ equality and reproductive rights.
Growing up in a working class family in the Bogside in Derry, Sophia always had an acute sense of injustice by observing the reality of a world divided into the haves and the have nots.
Sophia noted, “We all realise at some point that the only people to fight against the injustices of the world are ourselves.
Some drown out that truth with denial; others can’t think about it because they’re so focused on scraping by and surviving day-to-day; and some avoid thinking about it all together because the prospect of building the mass struggle necessary for societal change feels absolutely crippling.
I have felt each of these things at various times in my life, but through activism and being part of movements for change, the flame in my spirit has burned brighter.
The importance of collective action and speaking up for the have nots is why I am standing for election and why I believe so strongly in People Before Profit.”
t: 075 109 53129
Amy Merron is a 25-year-old socialist and reproductive justice activist from Portstewart, County Derry. Amy is a young mother of two and a psychology undergraduate student in her final year of University in Coleraine.
As a psychology student, Amy is passionate about addressing the ongoing mental health crisis and ensuring that adequate resources and support are available for children and adults, particularly for marginalised populations such as the LGBTQ+ community, migrants, and young people who have special educational needs.
Amy has experienced first-hand the current challenges that are faced by workers, students, and families in East Derry. She has volunteered at a local pre-school and is currently an equality councillor on Ulster University’s Student Council, ensuring that minority students’ voices are heard. Amy is also an active campaigner fighting for reproductive justice in the North and has spent time on the picket lines supporting striking workers.
Sipho Sibanda is a mother/sister/daughter/friend and Human Rights Activist born in Zimbabwe, Studying Social Policy and an Equality Councilor at Ulster University.
Sipho is a BLM activist and advocates for Human Rights. She believes everyone should be treated equally and with respect.
Sipho is Deputy Chair for BMEWN (Black Minority and Ethnic women’s network) and also volunteers with the City of Sanctuary.
