‘A gentleman in every sense of the word’: DUP Alderman leads tributes to friend and party colleague Jim McElroy

‘A gentleman in every sense of the word’: DUP Alderman leads tributes to friend and party colleague Jim McElroy

Tributes have been paid at ABC Council to former DUP councillor and Banbridge businessman Jim McElroy MBE, with one colleague and friend describing him as “a gentleman in every sense of the word”. Mr McElroy, who opened a clothing store in the town in 1969 and later a pram and toy shop, passed away in recent weeks at the age of 89. He was remembered fondly at the outset of ABC Council’s monthly meeting for October, with DUP Alderman Paul Greenfi…