Ian Marshall (politician) explained

Ian Marshall
Office:Senator
Term Start:27 April 2018
Term End:27 March 2020
Constituency:Agricultural Panel
Birth Date:1968
Birth Place:Markethill, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Party:Ulster Unionist[1]
Otherparty:Independent Unionist[2] (until 2021)

Ian James Marshall (born 1968)[3] is a farmer and former Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician from Markethill, County Armagh, in Northern Ireland.[4] He is from a unionist background and campaigned against Brexit.[4] [5] He was elected to Seanad Éireann in Dublin in 2018, but lost his seat in the 2020 Seanad election.[6]

Farming

Marshall is a dairy farmer. He was president of the Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) from 2014 to 2016.[7] [8] [9] In 2015 he invested in the controversial Renewable Heat Incentive scheme and later complained that its critics made no distinction between legitimate investors and those who misused the scheme.[10] In February 2017 the UFU successfully challenged a 2012 reduction by DARD in Marshall's CAP grant, provoked by nitrate pollution detected by NIEA near his farm in 2010–2011, on the basis that the pollution was unintentional.[11] In August 2017, Marshall was appointed Business Development Manager at the Institute for Global Food Security in Queen's University Belfast.[12] [13]

Seanad

Marshall was elected to the 25th Seanad on 27 April 2018 in a by-election for the Agricultural Panel.[14] The vacancy was caused by the resignation of Denis Landy. He was approached to stand by then Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar; his candidacy was also supported by Sinn Féin.[13] [14] He had never been a member of a political party and sat as an Independent.[15] He was the first unionist member elected to the Oireachtas since the 1930s.[16]

He lost his seat at the 2020 Seanad election. He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 2021 Seanad by-election to the Agricultural Panel[17] which followed the resignation of Fine Gael Senator Michael W. D'Arcy.[18] He was again backed by Sinn Féin, but not by Fine Gael.[19] In The Irish Times, columnist Fintan O'Toole lamented that "it was much more important for the Government parties to vote for one of their own than to place a single liberal unionist from Armagh (Ian Marshall) in the Oireachtas."[20]

Marshall was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for public and political service.[21]

Ulster Unionist Party

On 27 July 2021, the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) announced that Marshall had joined the party.[22] Marshall commented that the UUP offered "a moderate, considerate position" and a "move on from identity politics to focus on things that are a priority for most people – the economy, jobs, healthcare, housing and building good relationships across this island and between our two islands".[23] [24]

Marshall stood unsuccessfully as the UUP candidate for West Tyrone in the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election, polling 1,876 votes, 4.1% of the total. He resigned from the UUP in August 2023.[25]

Notes and References

  1. News: Former Irish senator Ian Marshall joins 'inclusive and diverse' UUP . Suzanne . Breen . . Belfast . 0307-5664 . 27 July 2021 . live . https://archive.today/20210727115601/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/former-irish-senator-ian-marshall-joins-inclusive-and-diverse-uup-40693028.html . 27 July 2021 . 27 September 2021 .
  2. News: Ian Marshall: Becoming a member of the Seanad makes me a stronger unionist . . Belfast . 49937511 . 20 April 2019 . live . https://archive.today/20210727130504/https://www.irishnews.com/lifestyle/2019/04/20/news/ian-marshall-becoming-a-member-of-the-seanad-has-strengthened-my-unionism-1600090/ . 27 July 2021 . 6 December 2019 .
  3. News: First unionist Senator turned down Orange Order as teen . . Belfast . 0307-5664 . 2 July 2018 . 1 January 2019 . 2 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190102002238/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/first-unionist-senator-turned-down-orange-order-as-teen-37069597.html . live .
  4. News: Former Ulster Farmers' Union president set to run for Seanad . Aine . McMahon . 16 February 2018 . . Dublin . 0307-5664 . 27 April 2018 . live . https://archive.today/20210727132343/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/former-ulster-farmers-union-president-set-to-run-for-seanad-1.3395347 . 27 July 2021 .
  5. News: Sinn Féin to back anti-Brexit campaigner Ian Marshall for the Seanad . Aine . McMahon . 24 April 2018 . . Dublin . 0307-5664 . live . https://archive.today/20210727132411/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/sinn-f%C3%A9in-to-back-anti-brexit-campaigner-ian-marshall-for-the-seanad-1.3473193 . 27 July 2021 . 27 April 2018 .
  6. Web site: Ian Marshall . Oireachtas Members Database . 4 July 2019 . 4 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190704071631/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Ian-Marshall.S.2018-04-18/ . live .
  7. News: Sinn Féin backs unionist farmer Ian Marshall for Senate . . 24 April 2018 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180703150547/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-43887956 . 3 July 2018.
  8. Web site: New leadership team elected at UFU AGM . Donnelly . Margaret . 1 May 2014 . Agriland . 27 April 2018 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160703063639/http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/new-leadership-team-elected-ufu-agm/ . 3 July 2016.
  9. New leadership team at UFU . 26 April 2018 . News . . 27 April 2018 . live . https://archive.today/20210727142822/https://www.ufuni.org/news/new-leadership-team-at-ufu . 27 July 2021 .
  10. News: End witch hunt, urges ex-farmers' union chief who signed up for RHI . McCullough . Chris . 19 December 2016 . . Belfast . 0307-5664 . 27 April 2018 . live . https://archive.today/20210727142324/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/end-witch-hunt-urges-ex-farmers-union-chief-who-signed-up-for-rhi-35303691.html . 27 July 2021 .
  11. Judicial review supports UFU position . 7 February 2017 . News . Ulster Farmers Union . 27 April 2018 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210727142104/https://www.ufuni.org/news/judicial-review-supports-ufu-position . 27 July 2021.
  12. Web site: Ian Marshall IGFS appointment . 1 August 2017 . Staff Gateway . . 27 April 2018 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180428012038/https://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/StaffGateway/News/KeyappointmentforInstituteforGlobalFoodSecurity.html . 28 April 2018.
  13. News: Sinn Féin backs unionist farmer in Seanad by-election . Conor . McMorrow . 24 April 2018 . . Dublin . 27 April 2018 . live . https://archive.today/20210727140018/https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2018/0424/956980-sinn-fein-marshall/ . 27 July 2021 .
  14. News: Unionist farmer takes one of two Seanad seats . . Dublin . 27 April 2018 . 27 April 2018 . 20 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190120074403/https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/0427/958569-seanad-elections/ . live .
  15. News: Sinn Féin votes help unionist into Irish senate . Adair . Gordon . 27 April 2018 . . 28 April 2018 . 27 April 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180427182615/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-43920260 . live .
  16. Web site: 1998 Review of "Crisis and Decline; the fate of the Southern Unionists" . Geoffrey . Wheatcroft . Geoffrey Wheatcroft . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110222065415/http://www.reform.org/TheReformMovement_files/article_files/articles/southernunis.htm . 22 February 2011. .
  17. News: Seanad by-election count continues as Byrne takes seat . . Dublin . 21 April 2021 . 27 September 2021 . 21 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210421063849/https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2021/0420/1211089-seanad-by-election/ . live .
  18. News: Former junior finance minister to head funds sector lobby group. Michael D'Arcy to resign Seanad seat for Irish Association of Investment Management post . 28 September 2020 . Cliff . Taylor . . Dublin . live . https://archive.today/20210621164155/https://www.irishtimes.com/business/financial-services/former-junior-finance-minister-to-head-funds-sector-lobby-group-1.4365853 . 21 June 2021 . 27 September 2021 .
  19. News: Seanad byelection victories boost sense of unity between Government leaders . 21 April 2021 . Harry . McGee . . Dublin . 0307-5664 . 27 September 2021 . 21 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210421204537/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/oireachtas/seanad-byelection-victories-boost-sense-of-unity-between-government-leaders-1.4543995 . live .
  20. News: Partition squeezed out pluralism. We have to let it back in . Fintan . O'Toole . Fintan O'Toole . 1 May 2021 . . Dublin . 0307-5664.
  21. News: 31 December 2021 . New Year Honours 2022 . NI Direct Government Services .
  22. News: Former Irish senator Ian Marshall joins UUP . 27 July 2021 . . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210727161804/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-57981950 . 27 July 2021.
  23. News: Former Irish senator Ian Marshall joins UUP . Jonathan . McCambridge . . 27 July 2021 . . Cork . 1393-9564 . live . https://archive.today/20210727162707/https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-40346402.html . 27 July 2021 . 27 September 2021 .
  24. News: Former Senator Ian Marshall joins Ulster Unionist Party . . Dublin . live . https://archive.today/20210727163058/https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2021/0727/1237504-ian-marshall-uup/ . 27 July 2021 . 27 September 2021 .
  25. Web site: My time in UUP wasn’t what I had hoped, says ex-Irish senator who quit party. Belfast Telegraph. 11 August 2023. 19 January 2024.

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