Tag Archives: SDLP
A NEW UK-wide ‘FBI-style’ policing agency has been launched on Monday. But the National Crime Agency won’t be able to operate in Northern Ireland after … more
SDLP MP Mark Durkan has blasted Chancellor George Osborne’s new conditions for the long-term jobless. The plans include community work placements, daily visits to a … more
TALKS aimed at breaking the parading and flags impasse have entered a second day of behind-closed-doors discussiontalks. US diplomat Richard Haass is meeting unionist politicians … more
THE senior US diplomat parachuted into Northern Ireland to help solve the issues of parades, flags and the past admitted he has a tough task … more
POLITICIANS have reacted with anger and disappointment that there will be no public inquiry into the Omagh bomb atrocity. The decision was announced on Thursday … more
SDLP leader Dr Alasdair McDonnell has condemned those who threw paint at a Catholic church in the Markets district of south Belfast as “mindless vandals.” … more
MONEY from Europe is helping to extend a boiler scrappage scheme to 8,000 more homes across Northern Ireland. The extra cash will allow grants of up … more
THE DUP has blocked a motion which was to see the re-called Northern Ireland Assembly examine ‘whistle blower’ allegations of political interference in the Housing Executive … more
THE Orange Order has agreed to hold talks with a nationalist residents’ group ahead of next week’s Twelfth of July parade in north Belfast. It … more
THE Alliance Party has hit out after SDLP members on Castlereagh Borough Council refused to back it for the position of deputy mayor. Instead, the SDLP voted … more
