NICVA Live - Assembly Hustings event 7 April 2011

NICVA is hosting a hustings event to provide the voluntary and community sector with the opportunity to question MLA candidates from across the political spectrum on the subject of their manifestos. The event will be hosted by William Crawley, journalist and broadcaster.  The event starts at 9.30am lasting to 1pm. This will be a live blog so join in. On twitter use the hashtag #nicva11

To follow the debate and even take part just click on the coveritlive below and it will show you how things are progressing.

UUP confirming prospective candidates for Assembly elections

Just hearing through the vine that the UUP have been confirming with Assembly hopefuls that they are now being recognised by the Party as official prospective Northern Ireland Assembly candidates.  I am also hearing that more information will come from the Party on Monday though some names such as Jo-Anne Dobson and Mark Finlay have been confrimed. 

The NI Assembly election will take place on 5th May 2011.  Elections for the local 26 councils will take place on the same day.

If that were not enough there is a major possibility that we will also have to vote on voting!