Roy Beggs Jr, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetRoy Beggs Jr
Northern Irish politician
Date of Birth: 03-Jul-1962
Place of Birth: Glenoe, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Profession: politician
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Roy Beggs Jr
- Roy Beggs Jr MLA (born 3 July 1962) is a Northern Ireland Unionist politician, and the son of the politician Roy Beggs.
- He was born in Larne, and lives in Glenoe.
- He is also a Presbyterian.He is currently an Ulster Unionist member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for East Antrim, which his father formerly represented in the Westminster Parliament.
- He served as a local councillor on Carrickfergus Borough Council from 2001 to 2011.
- During this period he had been elected as Chairman of the District Policing Partnership and Vice-chairman of the Local Strategic Partnership and of the Community Safety Partnership. In 2011 Beggs was elected as a Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
- He serves as a member of the Assembly’s Social Development Committee and the Public Accounts Committee.
- He has served as a member of the Health Committee, Environment Committee, Finance Committee, Deputy Chairman of the Agriculture Committee and Regional Development Committee.
- He is the Ulster Unionist Party spokesperson on Social Development. In 2003, Beggs succeeded in having Irish rebel music removed from the in-flight entertainment of Aer Lingus airplanes.
- He complained of the "blatant promotion of opposing points of view" on a music channel during a flight from Dublin to Boston after seeing that Derek Warfield had a radio channel dedicated to his music.
- Beggs, it was the same as "the speeches of Osama Bin Laden being played on a trans-Atlantic Arabian airline."Aer Lingus removed the material from their flights stating: "It is something that should not have been on board and we removed it immediately we became aware of it."
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