SDLP recalls painful past while looking to the electoral challenges of the future

Seamus Mallon and other party veterans reflect on period when party members were murdered

Former SDLP leaders Mark Durkan and Margaret Ritchie with the former deputy leader of the party Seamus Mallon at the annual SDLP conference, in Armagh. Photograph: Bill Smyth/PA Wire

Former SDLP leaders Mark Durkan and Margaret Ritchie with the former deputy leader of the party Seamus Mallon at the annual SDLP conference, in Armagh. Photograph: Bill Smyth/PA Wire

Saturday afternoon’s session of the annual SDLP conference in the Armagh City Hotel was powerful, poignant and quietly emotional.

Anne Cadwallader, author of the Lethal Allies book had just spoken about the stories of RUC and Ulster Defence Regiment collusion with loyalist murder gangs in mid-Ulster.

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