| Robin Stirling | |
| Office: | Member of Ballymena Borough Council |
| Constituency: | Braid |
| Term Start: | 7 June 2001 |
| Term End: | 5 May 2011 |
| Predecessor: | Desmond Armstrong |
| Successor: | Beth Clyde |
| Birth Place: | Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland |
| Party: | TUV (since 2007) |
| Otherparty: | DUP (until 2007) |
Robin Stirling is a former Unionist politician in Ballymena, County Antrim. Having previously sat on Ballymena Borough Council as a Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) member and for a period before as a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) councillor.[1]
He was quoted as strongly opposing a visit from Irish president Mary McAleese to a Ballymena school in 2006.[2]
A former pupil of Ballymena Academy he was critical of the politics of Roger Casement,a fellow attendee of Ballymena Academy and prominent Protestant Irish Nationalist who was previously a British diplomat later executed for treason.[3]
Stirling resigned from the DUP in April 2007 in protest in the DUP's decision to share power with Sinn Féin.[4] To much surprise Stirling supported a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) councillor becoming mayor of Ballymena in 2008.[5]
He has spoken out on his views of the grammar of the English language being misused and accused former DUP colleagues of using incorrect grammar.[6]
Stirling has also stated he has little faith in a truth commission being set up for victims of The Troubles.[7]
Stirling did not seek re-election in the 2011 local government elections.