Midgley Park, the reserve and often training pitch of Linfield FC, the largest football club in Northern Ireland, is named after a socialist and unionist, Harry Midgley, who led the Northern Ireland Labour Party from 1933 to 1938. In fact, Midgley's Left-wing persuasion was so strong that in the run-up to the 1923 general election UUP leader Sir James Craig referred to him as a Bolshevik.
Full ArticleDUP and UUP leave many young unionists feeling ‘embarrassed’
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