My piece in the Irish Times on why SDLP will be strongest when it is pluralist. The SDLP undoubtedly needs to professionalise and modernise, but there is no good reason it must end alliances to do so.
And you still can’t eat a flag.
https://t.co/2A4ybknVsA
Congratulations to @SDLPlive candidates @sppedwards Steven Edwards (Sperrin DEA), Jason Barr (Sperrin DEA) and Cara Hunter (Derg DEA) following their successful selection tonight to contest the forthcoming local council elections in May. #SperrinDEA#DergDEA#DCSDC#Election2019
"The naive belief in Westminster that a better deal can be negotiated with Brussels is merely postponing the inevitable." - SDLP Leader @columeastwood
Read more: https://t.co/eafwW5xLAn
Victoria Road is closed between Ballymagorry and Magheramason due to an earlier Road Traffic Collision. Diversions via Ballyheather Road, HGV drivers should take advice from Police at the scene. I’ll let you know when it reopens. Sgt Sam #PSNICMC
**Important information** - the Regional Community Resilience Group are hosting an information session next week to discuss ongoing insurance related issues with those affected by the flooding in the NW in August 2017. Please share
The same parties that voted to introduce Welfare Reform to Northern Ireland (@duponline & @sinnfeinireland), which has pushed thousands of households into poverty, tonight chose to vote against directing funding from a bonfire management scheme to an anti-poverty fund. Shameless.
Tyrone team to play Fermanagh in the B.O.I. Mc Kenna Cup
1 N Morgan.
2 L Rafferty
3 HP McGeary
4 C McLaughlin
5 B McDonnell
6 R Brennan
7 P Harte
8 C. Grugan
9 B. Kennedy.
10 N Sludden.
11 C McCann
12 R Gray
13 D. Mulgrew
14 C. McShane
15 R O’Neill
Met with @NIFHAPatrick today to discuss concerns about tenants now being hit with the Bedroom Tax, which wil rise to over 30,000 households come 2020 & the impact of #UniversalCredit in putting more people at risk of homelessness.
A cheque for £1,000 for Omagh Renal Fund was donated by Alan Lyons Director at Lyons & Ward Woodcraft in lieu of gifts to customers this year. Also in picture Alan's wife Leigh who is a renal transplant recipient & staff from Omagh Renal Unit & Renal Home Therapies.
One of our Social Workers, Kevin Leonard, has been delivering food hampers and toys to families involved with the Early Help Team this week #WT12DaysOfChristmas