Gerry Carroll

Gender-Based Violence

“Justice Has Been Done” Won’t Wash, Says Carroll After Donaldson Sentence

"Abuse that went unpunished for up to four decades is not proof that the system works. Powerful men are shielded by parties that close ranks and by a culture of deference that silences women and children... The DUP into itself can’t be trusted to uncover what was known and when."

15 Oct 2026

Children's Rights

Carroll: Reject Givan’s Delay Tactics. Make Sure No Child Goes Hungry

“Time and again, working-class families are told to wait while budgets are balanced on their backs. This Bill should be a floor, rather a ceiling. People Before Profit wants universal free school meals for every child."

12 Oct 2026

News

Carroll Receives Invite to PSNI Interview: “Standing Up for What’s Right is Never Wrong”

“I make no apology for standing with the residents of the Garvaghy Road. For almost three decades... When ordinary people peacefully stand together to defend their community, that is not criminality. It is the same civil disobedience that won every gain working-class people have ever made..."

8 Oct 2026

Community

Carroll: Orange Order Should Read the Room and Walk Away

"There is no victory available here. 35 men walking a road where nobody wants them will not build a house, shorten a hospital waiting list or put a pound in anyone's pocket - in Portadown or anywhere else. The only thing it delivers is division"

5 Oct 2026

Community

Carroll: West Belfast Rally to Stand with Garvaghy Road Residents

People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll will speak at a solidarity rally in west Belfast this evening, alongside Aamor Crofts (a resident of the Garvaghy Road) and Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan.

1 Oct 2026

Sectarianism

Carroll: Mediation Collapse Exposes the Failure of Power Sharing

Gerry Carroll MLA: "Power sharing was sold as the mechanism that would resolve exactly these kinds of disputes. Instead, a single Orange lodge with a grievance has brought the institutions to the brink in a week. This is the inevitable result of a system built on sectarian designation."

30 Sep 2026

Sectarianism

"Every elected representative on the Garvaghy Road was right to be there - First Minister included."

People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll, who stood with residents on the Garvaghy Road this weekend, calls out the hypocrisy of DUP who have flip-flopped between support for the Parades Commission to condemnation. Standing together is nothing to apologise for.

28 Sep 2026

Sectarianism

Garvaghy Road Residents Have "Nothing left to compromise"

Gerry Carroll MLA has rejected the Secretary of State's call for compromise on the Garvaghy Road. "There is no halfway house between a community's right to live in peace and an attempt to dominate it."

27 Sep 2026

Community

People Power Stops Orange Order at Garvaghy - PBP Representatives Join Overnight Blockade

Gerry Carroll MLA, Paul Murphy TD and Dublin City Councillor Conor Reddy stood with residents blocking the Garvaghy Road overnight, into Sunday morning. "We welcome the news that the Orangemen at Garvaghy have been ordered back to Drumcree Church. But nobody here is under any illusions."

27 Sep 2026