1981 Results: 1977 Results: 1973 Results: Votes by Party: DUP: 33,433 (25.8%), 15 Councillors UUP: 30,685 (23.7%), 13 Councillors SDLP: 18,227 (14.1%), 6 Councillors SDLP Councillor Brian Heading will bring forward a motion to Belfast City Council today, calling for an extension to the Job Retention Scheme, to support workers and businesses across Belfast. Cllrs, Pat Convery, Declan Boyle and Kate Mullan were suspended after they abstained on a motion dealing with harassment outside reproductive health facilities. Her home was attacked in the midst of the flag protests. Political Organization. The SDLP currently has 12 MLAs in the Northern Ireland Assembly and two Members of Parliament in Westminster.. In this mornings Belfast Telegraph, Suzanne Breen reports trouble in the SDLP’s ranks as three of their councillors on Belfast City Council have quit the party. Telephone: 07846770144 During the same period, Hanna was chair of the East Belfast Policing Board and Community Partnership. SDLP councillors in South Belfast have revealed where their loyalties lie ahead of the upcoming party leadership contest. The SDLP's vision is a reconciled people living in a united, just and prosperous new Ireland. DUP councillor “stepped over the mark” during Bobby Storey debate. News. The SDLP on Friday night hit back after Causeway Coast DUP councillors slammed a plan to honour a local gay rights activist who died of AIDS, claiming he was sympathetic to IRA terrorism. Hanna was the first member of the SDLP to express concern about the decision of SDLP Newry councillors to vote to name a play park after IRA hunger striker Raymond McCreesh. SDLP Councillors in Causeway Coast and Glens have submitted a propos... al for a memorial to Mark Ashton for his work to advance LGBT+ rights and workers rights. Mr Convery, a former lord mayor of Belfast, will be replaced as SDLP … Contact: LyonsD@belfastcity.gov.uk. Social Democratic and Labour Party. Today at 2:06 AM. He is SDLP Group leader on Belfast City Council and a former Chairperson of the Planning Committee and the City Growth and Regeneration Committee. A total of four candidates have stepped up to the challenge of becoming the next leader of nationalism’s second party, since current leader Margaret Ritchie announced during the summer she would be stepping down. Donal has particular interest in lifelong learning and serves as vice chair of the board of Libraries NI. Quinn Support Group. As relationships across these islands change, the SDLP's fundamental mission is to bring our people together in a new Ireland that ends division, celebrates all our communities and delivers the change all in our society deserve. Pages Liked by This Page. Belfast City Council. The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) (Irish: Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) is an Irish nationalist and social-democratic political party in Northern Ireland. West Belfast SDLP. ... SDLP Councillor Donal Lyons said the reputation of this council had “taken an awful blow”. Belfast councillors will formally invite US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to the city. The SDLP had seven members on Belfast City Council but now it has only four. Recent Post by Page. He is married with three daughters. Alliance, the SDLP, People Before Profit and the Greens have blasted the DUP and Sinn Fein on Belfast City Council for joining together to oppose virtual committee meetings.