Tommy Kirkham

Tommy Kirkham
Member of Newtownabbey Borough Council
In office
21 May 1997  5 May 2011
Preceded byBilly Boyd
Succeeded byThomas Hogg
ConstituencyMacedon
In office
17 May 1989  19 May 1993
Preceded byWilliam McDonnell
Succeeded byArthur Templeton
ConstituencyAntrim Line
Personal details
BornRathcoole, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
Political partyIndependent Unionist (since 2001)
Ulster Democratic (1995 - 2001)
Other political
affiliations
DUP (before 1995)

Tommy Kirkham is a Northern Ireland loyalist political figure and former councillor. Beginning his political career with the Democratic Unionist Party, he was then associated with the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Ulster Political Research Group although he has since been expelled from both groups. He was a former deputy mayor of Newtownabbey and sat on Newtownabbey Borough Council as an Independent Loyalist.