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- 1 2 Biography – Mervyn Carrick, Northern Ireland Assembly Archived 26 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Row as DUP team stay out", Belfast Telegraph , 7 May 2001
- ↑ Craigavon Borough Council, 1993 – 2005