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Colum Eastwood …New SDLP Leader

Posted on November 14, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

I blogged this on 5th November. “There are three groups in SDLP. One supporting Alasdair and one supporting Colum….but dont ignore a large body of opinion that this contest (for two different reasons) should not be taking place.” Dare I … Continue reading →

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Colum Eastwood Launches Campaign For Leadership

Posted on October 24, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

So…”The Hive”, Grosvenor Road, Belfast. Less than half a mile from where I spent the first seventeen years of my life. Once a Westie, always a Westie. In the end, around two hundred people in attendance. A lot from Derry … Continue reading →

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SDLP And Slugger O’Toole…Catch Yourself On, Mick!

Posted on October 23, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

So Slugger O’Toole has issued an invitation for a SDLP Leadership hustings event with local journalists and an audience of SDLP members. Thats awfully decent of Slugger O’Toole. After all, in May this year in East Belfast, Slugger O’Toole did … Continue reading →

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SDLP Leadership Contest

Posted on October 21, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

If you are travelling over the Glenshane Pass tomorrow afternoon, look out for a bus load of  SDLP “Derry wans” heading to Belfast. They are heading for the official launch of Colum Eastwood’s Leadership Election Campaign. Thursday is of course … Continue reading →

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SDLP Leadership Contest

Posted on October 1, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

Deja vu? When this Blog started, the SDLP was having a Leadership Contest following the resignatin of Margaret Ritchie after poor results in 2011 Assembly contest. This was in August 2011 and while I supported Patsy McGlone, I was pretty … Continue reading →

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Who Is David McCann?

Posted on September 28, 2015 by fitzjameshorse

I cant help notice that David McCann has posted a piece on Slugger O’Toole entitled “Who Is Colum Eastwood?” Colum is SDLP MLA for Foyle and a few years ago, he was the Mayor of the City of Derry when … Continue reading →

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Alex For Europe?

Posted on July 23, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

It is surely getting to the stage where SDLP should be choosing the candidate for the European Elections in 2014. Will the Party Conference in November be the event at which the candidate is announced? Or will the candidate be … Continue reading →

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Durkan Tops SDLP Youth Poll

Posted on June 3, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

This is interesting. My friends in SDLP Youth have had a poll on who the Party should select as the candidate in the European Elections next year and have come up with Mark Durkan, former Party Leader and currently the … Continue reading →

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SDLP Youth Conference

Posted on April 27, 2013 by fitzjameshorse

Some photographs from SDLP Youth Conference. The seemingly empty chairs are the Belfast delegation who had just arrived and were getting accredited at back of Culturlann.  Colum Eastwood MLA  Mark Durkan MP  Patsy McGlone MLA

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SDLP Euro Candidate?

Posted on December 11, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Early next year, SDLP will be selecting their candidate to run in the 2014 European Elections. I would have thought that Conall McDevitt would have been the front runner. I now think that Patsy McGlone is most likely candidate. Patsy … Continue reading →

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