Green Party Northern Ireland

🛴 E-scooters are everywhere in Northern Ireland but the law is nowhere near ready. Councillor Anthony Flynn joined BBC Talkback to cut through the confusion and call out years of Executive delay on proper regulation.

We’ve had reviews, action plans and warm words, but Lough Neagh is still deteriorating. Mal O’Hara on BBC Sunday Politics setting out why the Executive’s response is too weak, too slow, and too focused on awareness instead of enforcement. 🎬👇

On an island where over 70% of journeys are made by car & public transport gets the scraps, our politics keeps pouring money into roads while Translink plans cuts to bus and rail services. Party leader Mal O’Hara on BBC Sunday Politics on why the future has to be trains, buses, active travel and ..

Party leader Mal O’Hara on BBC Sunday Politics, making the Green case on the A5 road upgrade - safety upgrades now, rail investment for the west including Portadown - Derry line, and the truth about what the courts actually said. 🎬👇 1/2

While the Executive pours billions into a road that keeps failing in court, the All-Island Rail vision - including the vital Portadown to Derry line - sits on the shelf. 1/2

Sinn Féin helped pass the Climate Change Act and now they want to water it down when it becomes inconvenient. 1/3

Struggling to work and study in the heat? You’re not alone. UK law says workplaces must be a ‘reasonable’ temperature with a guidance minimum of 16°C. But there’s no maximum. 1/2

Billions for roads, scraps for public transport. That’s Northern Ireland’s transport policy in a sentence. The A5 needs safety upgrades, lives depend on it. But that can’t be the whole story. 1/2

“There’s a paper-thin wedge between our policies.” - Mal O’Hara Zack Polanski and Greens England, Scotland & Wales are saying it loud - lower bills, nationalise utilities, tax the obscenely rich. Same politics, same values, same moment. Record membership. Conference next week. The surge is building.

Who knew Farage’s lot would fit right in with the “traditional values” crowd? 😏 Not exactly the political revolution they promised. More like a right-wing love triangle with extra flags.

This week the billionaire-owned right wing press launched a full scale antisemitic assault on the Green Party England & Wales’ Jewish party leader Zack Polanski. What are they afraid of?

Two Green leaders. One message. Join us. 🌿 greenpartyni.org/join

Green Party Northern Ireland leader Mal O'Hara met up with England and Wales Green Party leader Zack Polanski today in Cardiff ahead of the Welsh Senedd elections next week. 1/3

On the doors in Cardiff with Zack Polanski and Welsh Greens. Party leader Mal O’Hara and Cllr Anthony Flynn bringing the GPNI energy to Senedd election season. The Green wave doesn’t stop at the Irish Sea. 💚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 💚

When politicians on the right say rising energy costs are directly linked to net zero and climate policies, they are full of it. 1/4

The debacle at Belfast City Council was distraction politics. 28 years of mismanagement & neglect of our political institutions & public services. Rather than deal with that we have political interference in what should be an impartial process on planning enforcement. People deserve more than this.

Keep the ban on the Executive parties. Pride is our protest not their photo opportunity. Last year we called for the Executive parties to be banned from Pride festivals and almost every pride festival agreed. In the year since, they have made no progress. 1/5

Slugger O’Toole sees it. 👀 The Greens are on the rise and every % point brings an Assembly seat closer. 💚 BUT EVERY MEMBER COUNTS 💚 EVERY DONOR COUNTS 💚 EVERY VOLUNTEER COUNTS 💚 AND EVERY VOTER COUNTS #GreenPartyNI #NIPolitics #HopeIsHere greenpartyni.org/join

Should we continue to subsidise the oil & gas industry or invest in green and renewable energy? #renewableenergy #greenparty #northernireland

Even the former boss of BP thinks new North Sea drilling licences make no sense. 🛢️ Do you agree? 👇 #NorthSea #EnergyTransition #ClimateAction #GreenPartyNI

Green Peer Natalie Bennett hand delivered the first copy of her new book Green Thinking to us at Belfast City Hall today. The former GPEW leader is in Belfast strengthening ties between our movements. Green politics - growing stronger across Europe & these islands.

Bangor is finally turning an ugly car park into a beautiful public park - so why are developers trying to pull down trees and build another car park on top of it? Green Party rep for Bangor Central, Gillian McNaull, says that green space, once removed, is almost impossible to get back. 1/2

What does it actually mean to join the Green Party? 🌿 Ash from Young Greens breaks it down - what we stand for, what you’d be part of, and why it matters right now. Watch. Share. Take the next step. greenspartyni.org.uk/join

Young people are being priced out of the property market by high rents and financial power of landlords & private equity. This is Stormont’s failure to build enough social homes and put safeguards in place, such as rent caps. Now HMOs are being exploited by online race baiters to stir up tensions.

Should we immediately invest in renewable and sustainable technologies to take back control from the dictators and lunatics holding us all hostage? #HopeIsHere

Commercial greyhound racing is banned across the world, most recently in Scotland & Wales. Cllr Anthony Flynn asks why do we tolerate a poorly regulated cruel ‘sport’ to exist without proper oversight from DAERA. “This is an unregulated industry operating without transparency or accountability.”

“This is an unregulated industry operating without transparency or accountability.” Green Party councillor Anthony Flynn Greyhound racing in Northern Ireland has no injury or death statistics for the dogs they race. There ‘s also no dedicated legislation or proper oversight from DAERA. 1/2

"Belfast has one of the most congested city centres in Western Europe, the way to solve that problem is not to provide free parking, but to get people onto the buses and the trains" - Cllr Anthony Flynn

‘Like drinking from a fetid-pond.’ A new report from Watershed Investigations (link in comments) detects superbug-creating genes at Lough Neagh. Commenting on The Nolan show, Green Party Leader Mal O’Hara raised his concerns that things at Lough Neagh are getting worse rather than better.

“Cope more.” 😄 Mal O’Hara on BBC NI Talkback - on Green success in Manchester, why retrofitting homes is the fastest route to lower bills, and why the critics are going to need to get used to it. greenpartyni.org/join

Even we didn’t see it coming at that scale. Mal O’Hara on BBC NI Talkback - on Hannah Spencer’s landmark win, what it says about the public mood, and why a different kind of politics is cutting through. 👇 greenpartyni.org/join

Reform is fading. The Greens are rising. Mal O’Hara on Talkback explaining why people are choosing hope over hate. Choose here 👉 greenpartyni.org/join

The door is open. Green Party Leader Mal O’Hara on what Hannah Spencer’s parliamentary victory means for ordinary people and the politics we deserve. Join us 👉 greenpartyni.org/join

If you’re willing to support Trump’s bombs, are you willing to support the people who flee them? Or our citizens who will see prices skyrocketing? We asked the DUP that in council. Silence. Hypocrisy isn’t a policy. 🕊️ 👉 greenpartyni.org/join

This International Women’s Day, Cllr Áine Groogan reminds us: the fight for women’s rights is inseparable from every social justice struggle. Bodily autonomy, trans rights, Palestine, climate - it’s all one fight. Strength in Solidarity. 🌍💚

NHS staff and teachers fought for single-digit rises, while potholes go unfixed and waiting lists spiral - MLAs at Stormont are to have a 27% pay increase. "We are constantly told there is no money. But somehow, somehow there is money for this." 1/3