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	Reg Empey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Empey became increasingly prominent in the UUP and was often a member of its negotiating teams throughout the 1990s, the decade when he first became a party officer, and he became a key ally of David Trimble, who became leader of the party in 1995.
		In 1999, Reg Empey was knighted by the Queen.
		Empey stood in the contest to succeed him and on June 24, 2005, was elected.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reg_Empey (511 words)

	ePolitix.com - Government condemned over Ulster deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Empey was talking after weeks of discussions about moving on from the two year suspension appeared deadlocked.
		Empey said: "All of this is dancing on the head of a pin.
		Empey claimed parties were negotiating about future power-sharing without knowing what the IRA was going to do.
	www.epolitix.com /EN/News/200410/c388f689-22c3-4861-8fdd-8030ae6091f0.htm (538 words)

	Irish Echo Online - Editorial
		Despite all that, however, the election of Reg Empey to succeed David Trimble at the helm of the party should not be dismissed as a trifling matter.
		Empey is almost universally acknowledged to be an affable and courteous man. That alone marks a stark contrast with Trimble, who was notoriously irascible.
		Empey may be the man to finally restore some calm.
	www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=16732 (385 words)

	DaVinci: Reg
		Barry White: Why Sir Reg does not relish a splitBelfast Telegraph, United Kingdom - 2 hours agoHe's somewhat out of the loop, Sir Reg Empey, but I think he had something very useful to say about the state of unionism when he refused to enjoy the prospect...
		Reg Wydeven is a partner with the Kaukauna-based law firm of McCary Law LLP.
		And Ulster Unionist leader Sir Reg Empey said he would be using this afternoon's meeting to attempt to clarify the sequence of events last Friday.
	www.bluegrassdavinci.com /ODP/Reg (351 words)

	Irish Abroad - Irish American News
		Empey, Assembly Member for East Belfast, succeeds David Trimble as boss of a party which recently lost its position as largest Unionist party to the Reverend Ian Paisley’s hard-line DUP.
		Empey, 57, was one of three candidates for Trimble’s job.
		In the weeks before the leadership vote, Empey said he believed the UUP was guilty of not listening to its supporters.
	www.irishabroad.com /news/irishinamerica/news/regempeynewleader_050629.asp (286 words)

	Slugger O'Toole: Reg Empey on Hearts and Minds...
		Posted by: groucho at June 9, 2005 08:07 PM Reg Empey is reported in the Guardian to announce his candidacy this evening.
		Posted by: Middle Ground Man at June 9, 2005 09:33 PM Reg before he is the leader is playing the Orange card and supporting the organisation but will he do a David Trimble once elected.
		Empey is sounding like the technocrat he probably is, and appears to have highlighted poor internal structures, etc. Although the UUP has been atrociously run, its decline is not really down to that.
	www.sluggerotoole.com /archives/2005/06/reg_empey_on_he.php (3176 words)

	Slugger O'Toole: Empey sets out his stall
		The Irish Times' Northern editor, Gerry Moriarty, was at Reg Empey's official launch of his candidacy last night at the Holiday Inn in Belfast (see comments), and noted that he had quite a crowd assembled..
		Empey is also reported as saying that, if he becomes leader, the UUP would be unlikely to return to a power-sharing executive until Autumn 2007[subs req]..
		Reg might be seeing things differently - lying on his back on the canvass - but from where most spectators have been viewing the contest the UUP is sprawled out and no medic would allow them back in the ring.
	www.sluggerotoole.com /archives/2005/06/empey_sets_out.php (1112 words)

	Everything Ulster - Empey To Confront Unionist History
		The one thing I can say for Reg Empey following the controversial decision to bring a representative of a paramilitary group under his party's umbrella group at the assembly is that it's a brave step.
		Empey has claimed that the move was, as well as a tactical decision to get the extra executive seat, part of a strategy to bring loyalists in from the cold and work to reduce the feeling of alienation from the political process felt by many in loyalist communities.
		I could go down the line of accusing Reg and the UUP of utter hypocrisy, given their past rhetoric on decommisioning of IRA weapons, however this is rhetoric not confined to the UUP, it has been a common tactic of all shades of Unionism since the early days of the peace process.
	www.everythingulster.com /blogs/index.php/everythingulster/2006/06/04/empey_confronts_unionist_history (1514 words)

	N Irish Protestant elects Empey : HindustanTimes.com/UK: News for UK Asians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Empey immediately ruled out entering government with Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army and the largest Catholic party, in the currently suspended Northern Ireland Assembly (NIA).
		A staunch defender of keeping Northern Ireland tied to Britain, Empey was seen as a compromise candidate between the hard fringe of party and campaigners loyal to the moderate Trimble.
		Empey was supported by a majority of UUP lawmakers in the NIA, suspended since October 2002 due to a crisis of confidence between the power-sharing assembly's leaders.
	www.hindustantimes.com /2005/Jun/30/5983_1410982,00430004.htm (377 words)

	uuptoday.org » Sir Reg Empey MLA
		UUP Leader Sir Reg Empey today said the corporation tax debate was descending into farce with the Chancellor on one hand saying it was under review in Northern Ireland while Peter Hain was pouring cold water on it saying it would contravene EU law.
		UUP Leader Sir Reg Empey today said that there is no such thing as a half way house over devolution this weekend.
		Responding to Gordon Brown’s last Budget as Chancellor, Ulster Unionist Party Leader Sir Reg Empey has raised his concerns about the tax hike on small businesses and the lack of new approaches to social and environmental challenges.
	uuptoday.org /newsroom/author/sir-reg-empey (2518 words)

	RTÉ News: Empey warns ESB off NI electricity
		Ulster Unionist leader Reg Empey has said he wants the British government to intervene in any bid to take over Northern Ireland Electricity.
		Mr Empey said he was concerned at reports that the ESB is planning a proposal to take over the electricity network.
		Mr Empey, formerly Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment in the Northern Ireland Assembly, warned there would be political consequences if the company, which is owned by the Irish Government, were to take over Northern Ireland Electricity.
	www.rte.ie /news/2006/1113/electricity.html (228 words)

	House of Commons - Northern Ireland Affairs - Minutes of Evidence
		(Sir Reg Empey) My understanding is that while they did do a lot of training most of the jobs were actually hands on dealing with their mainstream business.
		They contracted training from outside, but they did have some internally driven training because they are a global company, but most of the jobs were actually involved with the main part of their business and were not actually principally training jobs.
		I think the development of the sort of Canary Wharf syndrome in recent years, where it was felt that lots of local communities felt excluded from the shiny developments that were happening around them, and it is precisely that, the point I was making to Mr Thompson, that we want to avoid.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmniaf/198/0061403.htm (5422 words)

	Irish American Post
		I think it’s a case of perhaps John Taylor, David Burnside and others trying to get Reg Empey to go against David Trimble at the AGM which is on the end of March.
		I should also add though, that Sir Reg Empey is travelling with David Trimble to the White House, at this stage that doesn’t seem to be the case.
		Significantly flanked by senior members, including Sir Reg Empey, the party emerged about an hour later to say they were ignoring Downing Street and treaties to go back into the review and urging others to do the same.
	www.gaelicweb.com /irishampost/year2004/02feb-mar/news/news02.html (2333 words)

	Guardian \| Empey to replace Trimble
		Sir Reg Empey was appointed leader of the Ulster Unionist party last night, a post described as the "most unenviable job in British politics".
		After Alan McFarland, a former British army major, came a close second with his modernising message, Sir Reg will be advised by some to ensure Mr McFarland and his supporters are given a role in reshaping the party as it aims to mount a comeback.
		Sir Reg's campaign was backed by half the party's assembly members, including hardliner David Burnside, who urged the 35-40% of the party who were sceptical of the Good Friday agreement to give him a "decent honeymoon period".
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5224168-103588,00.html (313 words)

	House of Commons - Northern Ireland Affairs - Minutes of Evidence
		I would be very grateful if you could just go over again the figures in relation to repeated investment, the expansion figures, in relation both to 1999/2000 and also the comparison with the previous year.
		On the figures which the Minister gave us a moment ago, the cost of new jobs in 1995/96, in terms of people coming for the first time, £17,000 per job; whereas the cost of expansion jobs was £23,000.
		(Sir Reg Empey) There is not, as I understand it, an absolute limit on it, but it is one of the areas where there is a lot of discretion on behalf of the Minister in dealing with each particular project.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmniaf/198/0061402.htm (3985 words)

	Peter Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		DUP Deputy Leader and East Belfast Assembly candidate Peter Robinson hit back at Reg Empey’s comments regarding the contract signed by DUP Assembly candidates and contrasted the DUP’s commitment to keeping pledges with the history of failure by the UUP.
		"Reg Empey’s comments regarding contracts signed by DUP Assembly candidates show that he clearly has as little knowledge about running a political party or about keeping pledges as his failed predecessor David Trimble.
		Reg Empey should recognise this given that he studied this art whilst at the side of David Trimble and has now carried it through into his attempt to lead the UUP.
	www.peterrobinson.org /pressarticles.asp?Article_ID=337 (342 words)

	Newshound: Daily Northern Ireland news catalog - Irish News article
		UUP leader Reg Empey has said he regrets his role in the loyalist Vanguard movement.
		Sir Reg said unionist politicians sat around a table with loyalist paramilitaries during the 1974 Ulster Workers Council strike.
		He faced criticism on the programme for having invited PUP leader David Ervine, whose party is aligned to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), to join the party at Stormont when the assembly reconvened last week.
	www.nuzhound.com /articles/irish_news/arts2006/may28_Empey_regrets_Vanguard_role.php (594 words)

	The Irish News Online
		But Sir Reg Empey insisted the divisions would not be good for the future of unionism.
		But in an interview with BBC Radio, Sir Reg Empey said evidence of division within the rival unionists was obvious.
		Sir Reg accepted that there was a case of history repeating itself after the UUP itself suffered deep divisions when former leader David Trimble agreed to share power with Sinn Féin before decommissioning had taken place.
	www.irishnews.com /access/breakingnews/story.asp?j=203050542&p=zx3x5yz48&n=203051302&x= (359 words)

	Irish Examiner - 2006/10/27: Empey says no - Assault on plan to unify economy
		However, in the jaundiced eyes of Ulster Unionist leader Sir Reg Empey, the all-island concept is based on a false premise and has the potential to poison relations between the two parts of the island just “when progress was being made.”
		Especially as the high moral ground of unionism had already been taken by the Rev Ian Paisley in forcing the postponement of talks involving party leaders over the interpretation of the ministerial oath of office at Stormont.
		In a bid to regain ground, Mr Empey aimed a broadside at Dr Paisley’s DUP, claiming that in trying to unpick the eight-year-old Good Friday deal, they had allowed the Irish Government and nationalists to go far beyond what was originally intended.
	archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/2006/10/27/story16811.asp (564 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Sir Reg Empey: A profile
		Sir Reg owns a clothing business in Belfast and has used his commercial experience to good effect in overseeing the Northern Ireland economy.
		Born in Belfast in 1947, he was educated at the Royal School in Armagh and at Queen's University in Belfast.
		Sir Reg has been a member of the European Committee of the Regions since 1994 and vice president of the Ulster Unionist Council since 1996.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/1412118.stm (424 words)

	Ulster Unionist Party leadership election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following his resignation, the UUP's Executive Committee charged Sir Reg Empey, Lady Hermon and Lord Rogan with the interim leaderhsip of the Party.
		After two rounds of voting the election was won by Sir Reg Empey.
		June 9 2005 - Sir Reg Empey formally launches a bid for the leadership, with the backing of more than half the party's MLAs and its sole MEP Jim Nicholson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party_leadership_election,_2005 (807 words)

	Empey to discuss impasse
		Empey to discuss impasse with PM Sir Reg Empey is to have his first meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair since taking over as UUP leader.
		Sir Reg Empey is to have his first meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair since taking over as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party....
		Sir Reg Empey is to have his first meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair since taking over as UUP leader.
	www.pyrosoft.co.uk /news/2005/07/25/1122270033.htm (94 words)

	Newshound: Daily Northern Ireland news catalog – Irish News article
		Sir Reg's frank admission that, along with DUP machinations, Ulster Unionists also played fast and loose with paramilitaries is refreshing.
		Sir Reg may have stumbled inadvertently onto this path but his actions now challenge us to dare to make peace.
		Sir Reg Empey must now hold his nerve and dare to help make peace where it really counts.
	www.nuzhound.com /articles/irish_news/arts2006/jun5_Empey_move_hypocrisy__RGarland.php (729 words)

	Newshound: Daily Northern Ireland news catalog - Irish News article
		Sir Reg Empey apparently thinks he can avoid the fate of his predecessor by repeating the very first and very worst mistake of his predecessor.
		So the party lost an election and David Trimble lost the leadership to be replaced by Sir Reg Empey – who immediately set about recreating the Drumcree scenario in every respect bar its pleasing rural setting.
		He has implicated the Ulster Unionists in a fight over nothing in which the UVF and the UDA are guaranteed to run amok, the Orange Order is guaranteed to disgrace itself and the argument is guaranteed to be lost.
	www.nuzhound.com /articles/irish_news/arts2005/sep15_reg_empeys_strategy__NEmerson.php (772 words)

	An honor for Michele O'Leary, nun and social activist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The diminutive Sister of Mercy stepped out of a limo that had picked her up and discovered she was being toasted not at the Empey home but at the City Hall.
		"Reg told me I must have been the first Catholic nun ever to be given an official dinner at Belfast City Hall," O'Leary said.
		I do not think it is overstating the case to say that Michele O'Leary, along with her co-founder, Mel Madden, laid much of the foundation on which Hume and Trimble could build.
	www.postgazette.com /columnists/20030628roddy0628p1.asp (713 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Northern Ireland \| Empey launches UUP leadership bid
		Sir Reg Empey has launched a formal bid for leadership of the Ulster Unionist party.
		Sir Reg, the former Northern Ireland enterprise minister, is an assembly member for East Belfast.
		Sir Reg said the party had failed to listen to its grassroots supporters.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/4078932.stm (306 words)

	Irish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The leader of the Ulster Unionist party, Sir Reg Empey, was under severe pressure last night after the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) shot a leading loyalist on the outskirts of north Belfast.
		At the time Mr Empey was warned any UVF violence could jeopardise his leadership of the party.
		Ulster Unionist Party leader Sir Reg Empey recently invited David Ervine - leader of the Progressive Unionist Party which is linked to the UVF - to take the UUP whip in the Assembly.
	www.iais.org /shtmp.cfm?News_ID=4467 (538 words)

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