Margaret Ritchie

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SDLP’s newly elected MLA Colin McGrath in Downpatrick. Photograph: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press
SDLP ponders place in world after bruising Stormont election

Back in January a former SDLP leader made a proposal that could have radically changed the nature of this month’s Northern Ireland Assembly election. (...)

Conservative Party peer Michael Howard: backed amendments that would remove treaty-breaking clauses from the Bill. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images
Johnson suffers heavy defeat in House of Lords over Internal Market Bill

Boris Johnson suffered an overwhelming defeat in the House of Lords late on Monday over the Internal Market Bill, which would allow ministers to brea(...)

It is unfortunate that a role was never found for Ian Marshall at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. Photograph: Patrick Bolger/Bloomberg
Newton Emerson: A unionist-free Seanad? Nobody minds really

Former senator Ian Marshall says “the entire unionist community feels let down and left behind” by the new government’s failure to nominate a unionist(...)

The coffin of Seamus Mallon is carried to Saint James of Jerusalem Church in Mullaghbrack, Co Armagh. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
Seamus Mallon: Funeral mass remembers peacemaker

Seamus Mallon was a “peacemaker, a bridge builder, a leader, a statesman, and a faithful worker for the Kingdom of God”, the Archbishop of Armagh and (...)

Former SDLP leader Margaret Richie described the House of Lords in 2012 as an ‘anachronistic institution’. Photograph: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker
Ex-SDLP MP unapologetic about House of Lords elevation

Former SDLP leader and now newly elevated member of the House of Lords Margaret Ritchie is sitting on the reputed grave of St Patrick in Downpatrick m(...)

Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow: “We would not want anyone to be whipped senseless, would we?” Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA
Bercow times resignation to limit government influence on successor

John Bercow has announced he will stand down as speaker of the House of Commons on October 31st, the day Britain is due to leave the European Union. I(...)

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood was coy on suggestions of a future relationship with Fianna Fáil. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
SDLP falling into irrelevance in absence of Assembly

Since the SDLP played a pivotal role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland they have suffered at the polls. The then leader John Hume knew by opening(...)

Colum Eastwood and members of the SDLP after talks at Downing Street. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
Down and out SDLP mowed down by ‘tribal juggernaut’

In the days before the Westminster election, an SDLP veteran had a row with two of his daughters, both in their early 20s, after they told him they we(...)

Mark Durkan of the SDLP with his wife, Jacqui, after losing his seat following the General Election count for Foyle. Photograph: Margaret McLaughlin
Mark Durkan: ‘I regret that only Derry voice in Commons is Gregory Campbell’

John Hume’s name has been rarely off the tongues of members of the SDLP in Derry over recent months, as they battled, unsuccessfully as it turned out,(...)

Former SDLP MP Alasdair McDonnell, who lost his seat after last week’s election, at the Titanic exhibition count centre in Belfast. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
SDLP disappointment and fear of return to polarisation

There was no disguising the sadness in Seamus Mallon’s voice. “I am very, very disappointed and very sorry for good MPs who have lost their jobs,” he (...)

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