The youngest ever elected political representative in Northern Ireland has told how his success came while studying for his politics A-Level.
Lewis Boyle, from Randalstown, was elected for the Alliance Party to Antrim and Newtownabbey Council at the age of 18. He told the PA news agency that his exams begin next week.
He said: “I’ll be sitting business, history and politics. I’m hoping to go to Queen’s University to study politics, depending on how the grades go.”