Northern Ireland

Tributes paid to UUP honorary president May Steele

Ulster Unionist Party leader Steve Aiken
Ulster Unionist Party leader Steve Aiken Ulster Unionist Party leader Steve Aiken

TRIBUTES have been paid to UUP honorary president May Steele, who has died aged 83.

Ms Steele, who was from Islandmagee in Co Antrim, had been involved in unionist politics since the 1950s.

A long serving party officer, she was also the Chair of the Ulster Women’s Unionist Council.

She was a UUP representative on the Northern Ireland Forum between 1996 and 1998 and was given the honorary title of president by former party leader Mike Nesbitt in 2016.

UUP leader Steve Aiken said: "May’s many friends within the Ulster unionist family will miss her dearly and I send my deepest sympathy to her family circle.

“Her contribution to the party and her sage advice to successive Ulster unionist leaders will always be appreciated and remembered.”