SDLP

DAERA Minister Andrew Muir MLA. (Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye)

New delivery plan seeking to address bovine TB incidence in NI expected by March

Patsy McGlone MLA

McGlone calls for support for industry

Patsy McGlone MLA

Assembly debates motion on the Farmers’ Basic Payment Scheme

SDLP MLA Patsy McGlone

McGlone raises plight of NI farmers with Minister Muir

Pat Catney. Picture: Declan Roughan

Pat Catney questions parties’ failure to act on Lough Neagh

‘Need for certainty’ as NI Assembly prepares to discuss both climate change bill...

Jim Allister MLA

‘Net Zero brigade is deliberately in the business of devastating our farming sec...

Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots

EU doesn’t query claim 90% of NI Protocol checks still to come

‘Discriminatory planning guidance needs shelved’

Irwin raises issues over rural planning

Badger culling proposals lambasted by SDLP

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 3 March 2017 - NI Assembly Election 2017 Count at Banbridge Leisure Centre for Newry & Armagh and Upper Bann constituencies.
Dolores Kelly(SDLP) makes her acceptance speech.
Photo by Tony Hendron / Press Eye.

Patients on NI waiting lists will be refunded for private health care in Irish R...

SDLP MLA Dolores Kelly who has been campaigning for a new build for Portadown Integrated Nursery and Primary School.

New building hopes for NI school ‘bursting at the seams’

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 3 March 2017 - NI Assembly Election 2017 Count at Banbridge Leisure Centre for Newry & Armagh and Upper Bann constituencies.
Dolores Kelly(SDLP) makes her acceptance speech.
Photo by Tony Hendron / Press Eye.

‘Startling’ figures show ‘lack of social housing for disabled’ says SDLP

McCrossan calls for full investigation into ‘significant fish kill’

Dolores Kelly .

Call for new strategy to restore our woodlands
Calls have been made for a new strategy to restore our local woodlands.
Carmel Robinson

Petition to retain local access to banks launched by SDLP

Dolores Kelly(SDLP) Tony Hendron / Press Eye.

Call for clear vision of future for NI farming post Brexit

Call for a safe zone for swimmers on Lough Neagh.

Call for a ‘safe zone’ for swimmers on Lough Neagh

Bank of Ireland branch closure is ‘a hammer blow’ to the town

Annesborough Road, Lurgan.

Heavy flooding in Lurgan and Craigavon leaves some roads impassable

Dolores Kelly (SDLP)

SDLP to introduced NI Assemby bill in bid to end period poverty

Rural internet access a ‘major milestone’

SDLP Cllr Eamon McNeill.

Eamon is new chair of cross border network

Upper Bann SDLP candidate in the Assembly election, Dolores Kelly pictured at the launch of the SDLP election campaign at Oxford Island Discovery Centre on Monday morning. INLM06-211.

New alcohol licensing laws welcomed

SDLP Cllr Eamon McNeill at Maghery.

People urged to apply for NIHE home in social housing test

Plea for Economy Minister not to leave out some busineses from COVID-19 help pac...
Assurances must be given by the Economy Minister that new COVID-19 financial assistance schemes don’t exclude some businesses, says the SDLP.
Carmel Robinson

SDLP MLA Dolores Kelly at the Bannfoot.

Call for survey of residents close to proposed Bannfoot bridge at Lough Neagh

Ritchie joins new Lords committee

The SDLP Agriculture and Rural Affairs spokesperson Patsy McGlone said: “I could scarcely believe my ears when I heard DUP MLA William Irwin say that an extension to the Brexit transition period would be of benefit to businesses, communities and wider society.”

‘DUP late to party on implications of Brexit’

Scene of a crash a Bridge St Portadown.

Emergency services at scene of crash in Portadown town centre

‘Risk of no trade deal remains high’

Bill a ‘total disaster’

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Pollinator plan being developed to protect Ulster bee population

Ms Sinead Bradley (SDLP, South Down) raises the issue of slurry spreading with the minister

Flexibility needed when it comes to slurry spreading, says minister

Mr Dallat said: The farming industry is sustaining many of our small towns and villages. When other people are at work, it is the farmers who are packing into the cattle mart and spending their money in cafes, shops and hardware stores, and giving badly needed work to the rest of the rural community."

Dallat: ‘Farming industry is sustaining our small rural communities’

Concern at Mercosur deal fall-out - McGlone

Swans on Lough Neagh

Flying swans blamed for power outages

‘Sperrins fencing scheme not enough’

Cllr Declan McAlinden

Health and Safety advice on litter picking which could see roads closed is ‘madn...

SDLP MLA for Mid-Ulster, Patsy McGlone at Stormont Castle in Belfast paying tribute to Northern Ireland's former deputy first minister and ex-IRA commander Martin McGuinness after he died aged 66. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Tuesday March 21, 2017. Mr McGuinness stood down in January in protest at the DUP's handling of the 'cash for ash' energy scandal, triggering a snap election. See PA story DEATH McGuinness. Photo credit should read: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

McGlone to meet with DAERA over Brexit plan

Patsy McGlone

Politicaluncertainty risks chaos and economic'¨devastation: McGlone

The dead calves which were dumped in Stoneyford

Six dead calves found dumped in Co Antrim

Sean Fitzpatrick and Jim Carmichael of NIAPA and Ivor Ferguson and James McCluggage from the Ulster Farmers' Union attended the meeting.
The Party was represented by MLAs John Dallat, Justin McNulty, Patsy McGlone and Cllr Martin Kearney.

SDLP's McGlone leads delegation to Creed

Agri sector needs certainty: McGlone

Ritchie in unity call

Attending the meeting with Minister Creed were: Patsy McGlone MLA, Pat Catney MLA, John Dallat MLA, Sinead Bradley MLA, Justin McNulty MLA, Margaret Ritchie, Sean Fitzpatrick (NIAPA) and Jim Carmichael (NIAPA)

SDLP delegation meets Irish agriculture minister on Brexit concerns

Ritchie calls for tariff free access to single market

South Down MP urges review of schemes

Margaret Ritchie MP and SDLP Assembly candidate Colin McGrath pictured with staff from Down Sauce Company in Downpatrick

Brexit implications a concern

South Down MP Margaret Ritchie with George Eustice and organisation representatives who attended the meeting in London

Ritchie leads delegation to meet Defra ministers

South Down MP Margaret Ritchie with George Eustice and organisation representatives who attended the meeting in London

Ritchie leads cross-border farming delegation in Leadsom meeting

McGlone: '˜Executive dawdles as London prepares to hang farmers out to dry'

Patsy McGlone, SDLP

Concerns continue over rural proofing

SDLP MLA Patsy McGlone

McGlone raises safety concerns with slurry deadline