Beard Liberation Front press release
Contact Keith Flett 07803 167266
3rd May
Pogonophobia may be an issue as Beard of Ireland Lee Reynolds loses Belfast Council seat
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that it is concerned that pogonophobia may have been an issue as Beard of Ireland 2019 Lee Reynolds lost his Belfast Council seat today.
Reynolds was eliminated on the 5th Count for Titanic DEA after receiving just 586 first preference votes.
Reynolds won the annual public on-line vote for Beard of Ireland in March as competition bristled for the accolade.
The campaigners say that Northern Ireland politics which 50 years ago was very clean shaven has become considerably more hirsute. It welcomes beards across the party spectrum but is not a party political campaign
BLF organiser Keith Flett said, it may be that Lee Reynolds defeat was related to quite other matters than his beard. It is however a concern that the current Beard of Ireland should lose a public position and suggests that there is still work to do in combating pogonophobia in Northern Ireland
BBC Report
DUP lose seat on Belfast City Council
Belfast City Council
Jayne McCormack
BBC News NI
The DUP’s group leader on Belfast City Council, Lee Reynolds, has lost his seat.
He only received 586 first preference votes. He was excluded on the fifth count. He had moved from the Balmoral DEA to Titanic, where the DUP had hoped to pick up three seats. It looks like they will still get two seats, with George Dorrian already returned and Adam Newton on course to be elected.
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