McCoubrey remains a prominent community activist in the Shankill, working to secure increased funding for the Shankill district, which was named in 2008 as Northern Ireland's most deprived area.

At the 2011 election the five councillors elected were William Humphrey, Naomi Thompson and Brian Kingston of the Democratic Unionist Party, the independent Frank McCoubrey ( who is a member of the Ulster Political Research Group and the Progressive Unionist Party's Hugh Smyth.

McCoubrey is a member of Belfast City Council ostensibly as an independent ( and was formerly deputy Lord Mayor of the city ), whilst Kirkham ( a member of Newtownabbey Borough Council ) is also registered as the leader of the Ulster Protestant League, a title he has never used in elections.

McCoubrey was first elected to the Council in 1997 as a member of the Ulster Democratic Party and was eventually elected as deputy mayor in 2000, with the votes of the Democratic Unionist Party and Ulster Unionist Party councillors.

He invited the five other brigadiers from the Inner Council to attend along with leading loyalist Michael Stone and politicians John White and Frank McCoubrey.

Ultimately the Council decided not to take any action against McCoubrey, with a motion of censure brought in by the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland's David Alderdice defeated in the council.

Following the collapse of the UDP and the resulting decision of the Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) to reconvene the UPRG McCoubrey was chosen along with Sammy Duddy, Frankie Gallagher and Tommy Kirkham to lead the new group.

Frank McCoubrey is a Unionist politician and loyalist in Northern Ireland, as well as a community activist and researcher.

McCoubrey also faced criticism from a former Lord Mayor of Belfast, Hugh Smyth, who had been a friend of his until the incident, with a number of Smyth's colleagues in the Progressive Unionist Party amongst those ran out of the Shankill by Adair and ' C ' Company.

The abstentionist policy of Sinn Féin MP Gerry Adams, who was West Belfast's MP until his resignation in 2011, led to an attempted legal challenge by local councillor Frank McCoubrey who argued that Shankill residents were being denied their right to representation.

On 22 February 2003 a new one year ceasefire extension was announced at a hotel in east Belfast but this was presented as a UPRG event, with journalists ' questions being answered by the likes of Frank McCoubrey, Sammy Duddy, Frankie Gallagher, Jim Wright and Tommy Kirkham, all of whom had emerged as the leading figures on the group.

In December 2008 McCoubrey was nominated by Bob Stoker for the post of High Sheriff of Belfast and was sworn into office on 21 January 2009.

In his role as a councillor McCoubrey opened early channels between loyalism and Sinn Féin, joining UDP colleague John White in holding an unofficial meeting with Alex Maskey in Belfast City Hall in June 2001.

McCoubrey became one of the leading figures in the UPRG and even joined Kirkham and Gallagher in meeting Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in 2004, along with UDA leader Jackie McDonald and prisoners ' spokesman Stanley Fletcher in a ' historic ' event.

Edgar L. McCoubrey and Jack LaLanne, ca 1960

Suffragette, Independent Labour and Co-operative activist Margaret McCoubrey in 1920 was elected a Labour councillor for the Dock ward of Belfast.

McCoubrey also led a campaign in 2003 to bring Gerry Adams to trial for violation of the human rights of the people of the Shankill.

McCoubrey, who organised a petition to this effect, argued that Adams ' and Sinn Féin's policy of abstentionism meant that the people of the Shankill were being denied representation and sought to bring a case to the European courts in order to alter the situation.

Calls were made for McCoubrey to resign, although he claimed that he did not know Adair and Stone would be there and that he was not expecting the gun-fire in the paramilitary show of strength that ended the night.

McCoubrey successfully defended his council seat in the 2011 local elections.

He next accepted a post as a director with Wigan Athletic, then became a member of Manchester United's board of directors in 1984 and remains one as of June 2011.

Denmark has been a member of NATO since its founding in 1949, and membership in NATO remains highly popular.

Detroit is also the only member of the Western League, the AL's minor league predecessor, that remains in its original city under its original name.

Although not a NATO member, Egypt remains a strong military and strategic partner and is a participant in NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue forum.

Since World War II France has been a leading member in the UN, the European Union and NATO, and remains a strong economic, cultural, military and political influence in the 21st century.

Drake, however, remains self-conscious regarding the fact that he is the youngest member of the group.

The court found that the union, had it offered assistance to the plaintiff, would be in violation of its duty to protect the tenure of the accused member, and this judgment remains the precedent for cases in which union members who make complaints to the employer of racist or sexist harassment against member ( s ) of the same union cannot obtain union advice or assistance ; this applies irrespective of the merit of the complaint.

Although no longer a member of the OAU ( Organisation of African Unity ) since November 12, 1984 — following the admission of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as the government of Western Sahara — Morocco remains involved in developing the regional economy, as the city of Casablanca contains North Africa's busiest port and serves as the country's economic center.

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For unknown reasons she remains the only member never to seek legal recourse for past royalty fees.

Bono remains the only member of Congress to have scored a # 1 pop single on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

This report, which had a marked effect on Theosophy, remains as with all SPR reports the opinion of the member concerned ; the SPR holds no corporate opinions.

Progress on Maghreb integration remains stymied, however, as a result of bilateral tensions between some member countries.

It is a founding member of and remains involved in the Central Asian Union, formed with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, joined in March 1998 by Tajikstan.

It is a founding member of and remains involved in the Central Asian Union, formed with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, joined in March 1998 by Tajikstan.

** Assata Shakur ( née Joanne Chesimard ), a former member of Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, escapes from a New York prison to Cuba, where she remains under political asylum.

The pre-Greek language remains unknown, but there is no evidence to rule out a member of the Indo-European superfamily.

As of the May 2011 there was only one Federal elected member of the Green Party in Canada, Elizabeth May, and there remains no representation in the United States.

He became a leading member of Chavez's Movimiento V República ( MVR ), and remains a leading member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela into which MVR was merged in 2007.

" As a rationalist member of the Enlightenment he continued, " It seems that one ought to begin by composing this language, but people begin by speaking and writing, and the language remains to be composed.

Uncaria is a member of the tribe Nauclea, but its position within that tribe remains unresolved.

In 1969, Barrett received the Robert Lansing Hardy Award of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, and remains a member of the National Academy of Engineering.