The first Lord Mayor of the new Belfast super council, Arder Carson of Sinn Fein, has set his sights on councils getting even more powers in future, he tells Political Correspondent Noel McAdam.
- It can’t be easy being a republican with a surname like Carson.
- Well it went down quite well in Lisburn (where he was a councillor for six years). Jonathan Craig was there at the same time so we had a Carson and a Craig. In fact on social media people have put out fake photographs of me appearing to stand next to Edward Carson, and actually the resemblance was quite striking.
It’s probably not the most popular surname in my community.
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