Cllr Denise Johnston

No words needed….

The SDLP Opposition will be highlighting the Executive's lack of delivery in the Assembly today.

One year ago Stormont returned to much fanfare and positive words. Today we have seen little of that positivity translate into meaningful action.

Happy Heavenly Birthday to Irelands greatest! My @sdlp hero and inspiration in everything I do.

Out and about in Newbridge and Ballymaguigan tonight with our newsletter. Hope to get to the rest of you in Moyola DEA over next few weeks. It gives you an update on some of the work both I and the rest of the SDLP team, including our new leader Claire Hanna have been doing 💪

Conor Murphy swapping control of a £1bn budget for a backbench Seanad seat is baffling. No Irish party sends their top people to the Seanad any more than British parties send their key people to the House of Lords. There are three possible explanations.

Remembering the O’Dowds and the Reavey’s on the 49th anniversary of the murder of their loved ones, all innocent men going about their ordinary lives. Lest we forget.

“It’s shameful that the family of Sean Brown face entering the new year still fighting for truth and justice for their beloved husband and father.” SDLP Mid Ulster MLA @patsymcglone.bsky.social Read more: www.sdlp.ie/mcglone_slam...

A shameful decision by the SoSNI. The cruelty visited upon this family didn’t stop with the bullets pumped into their defenceless father.

In her New Year message, SDLP Leader @clairehanna.bsky.social MP has said that 2025 must be about delivering for families in Northern Ireland. Read more: www.sdlp.ie/sdlp_leaders...

Nollaig shona dhaoibh. Merry Christmas to everyone.

This is the most important project of this generation. and @columeastwood.ie is well placed to drive it. Building upon well established relations, playing to @sdlp.bsky.social strengths, we can reach people that others can’t. A New Ireland cannot be delivered by one party alone.

Absolutely delighted for the Brown family! There’s still a long way to go but they are back on the path again. “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”

Time for Truth

In the name of God do the right thing and bring this families living hell to an end. Time for Truth

While proclaiming itself left-wing in Dublin, Sinn Féin in Belfast has just decided to keep the poorest homeowners subsidising the tax bills of the wealthiest people in NI living in multi-million-pound mansions. Whatever this is, it's not left wing.

My constituents Omar & Delma have tried for months to get family to safety from Gaza. Last week they received news they’ve dreaded, that relatives were killed & injured. Situation is getting worse not better & while UK Gov cannot ‘fix’ this they must do so much more than they are

@humblyjay.bsky.social Be Kind ☺️

Now the consent motion has passed our attention must turn to the independent review of our future relationship with Europe. We will be taking our key asks to the EU, UK and Irish Governments, and other stakeholders in the weeks and months ahead.

"Belfast is not in crisis" - John O'Dowd just now in the Assembly. The Infrastructure Minister clearly hasn't been in the city centre over the past month to see the congestion crisis. He could reduce metro bus fares, as we proposed, as a start to help people.

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Ross Neill, a solicitor from a unionist background living in Dublin, is a valuable, articulate contribution to the debate on forging a new Ireland. Do read it. For Northern Protestants comfortably to call themselves Irish, what it means to be Irish must change also www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Coming on Tuesday Kyran - The Lost Boy What has happened to this beautiful child? How could nobody notice he was missing for 2 years? @BBCSpotlightNI @BBCNewsNI searches for answers in Drogheda, Dundalk, Newry and across the UK.

🇪🇺 Positive and constructive discussions in Brussels today as we launch our policy paper, Our European Future. 🤝 As the most pro-European party in the North we want to strengthen our relationship with the EU. 👀 Read more here: www.sdlp.ie/our_european...