Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O’Neill’s speech
to the Ulster Unionist annual meeting in 1964. He had just been elected as
President of the Council in addition to being leader of the party. He mentions
towards the beginning that he has just come straight from the airport where he
had greeted the British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home and where he had
left him inspecting the new large air freighter built by Short Harland called
the Belfast. During the speech he talks about the economic prospects for
Northern Ireland and also pledges to ensure a cabinet meeting much more often.
In what appears to be something of a swipe at the way things had been done
before when the cabinet met just once a week, he gives his word that those days
are gone and that those in office will have to commit to working harder.