Lagan Valley Greens
@laganvalleygreens.bsky.social
Lagan Valley Greens constituency group of Green Party Northern Ireland.
✨ Vegan Bake-Off Time! ✨🌱
Think your baking is top tier? Join the Lagan Valley Greens Vegan Bake-Off! £2 entry, TWO £20 prizes. Bring your bake & an ingredient list (for allergy safety!).
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Think your baking is top tier? Join the Lagan Valley Greens Vegan Bake-Off! £2 entry, TWO £20 prizes. Bring your bake & an ingredient list (for allergy safety!).
Sign up now: forms.gle/pXb7exLmHGBj... 🍰
January 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
✨ Vegan Bake-Off Time! ✨🌱
Think your baking is top tier? Join the Lagan Valley Greens Vegan Bake-Off! £2 entry, TWO £20 prizes. Bring your bake & an ingredient list (for allergy safety!).
Sign up now: forms.gle/pXb7exLmHGBj... 🍰
Think your baking is top tier? Join the Lagan Valley Greens Vegan Bake-Off! £2 entry, TWO £20 prizes. Bring your bake & an ingredient list (for allergy safety!).
Sign up now: forms.gle/pXb7exLmHGBj... 🍰
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Glasgow just opened Scotland’s first Overdose Prevention Centre, a bold move to tackle the drugs crisis. It’s time for Belfast to follow suit. GPNI leader Mal O’Hara has long advocated for these centres, which save lives, reduce harm, and connect people to support. Let’s act now.
#HarmReduction
#HarmReduction
January 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Glasgow just opened Scotland’s first Overdose Prevention Centre, a bold move to tackle the drugs crisis. It’s time for Belfast to follow suit. GPNI leader Mal O’Hara has long advocated for these centres, which save lives, reduce harm, and connect people to support. Let’s act now.
#HarmReduction
#HarmReduction
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Twelfth Night - Homes For All: Day 6 of 12
1 in 23 in NI homeless - 83,000 people. That’s all of Derry/Londonderry.
GPNI: Retrofit homes, strengthen renters’ rights, build social housing.
With Community Foundation NI, we’re tackling root causes.
Join: greenpartyni.org/join
1 in 23 in NI homeless - 83,000 people. That’s all of Derry/Londonderry.
GPNI: Retrofit homes, strengthen renters’ rights, build social housing.
With Community Foundation NI, we’re tackling root causes.
Join: greenpartyni.org/join
January 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Twelfth Night - Homes For All: Day 6 of 12
1 in 23 in NI homeless - 83,000 people. That’s all of Derry/Londonderry.
GPNI: Retrofit homes, strengthen renters’ rights, build social housing.
With Community Foundation NI, we’re tackling root causes.
Join: greenpartyni.org/join
1 in 23 in NI homeless - 83,000 people. That’s all of Derry/Londonderry.
GPNI: Retrofit homes, strengthen renters’ rights, build social housing.
With Community Foundation NI, we’re tackling root causes.
Join: greenpartyni.org/join
First meet-up of 2025, who’s in? 🧐
Our meet-ups are a chance to meet and chat with likeminded people in Lisburn and Lagan Valley. Everyone is welcome, members and non-members alike. Just show up and say hello!
14:00 Saturday, 18th Jan 2025
Sonas Coop,
35-37 Market Square South
Our meet-ups are a chance to meet and chat with likeminded people in Lisburn and Lagan Valley. Everyone is welcome, members and non-members alike. Just show up and say hello!
14:00 Saturday, 18th Jan 2025
Sonas Coop,
35-37 Market Square South
January 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
First meet-up of 2025, who’s in? 🧐
Our meet-ups are a chance to meet and chat with likeminded people in Lisburn and Lagan Valley. Everyone is welcome, members and non-members alike. Just show up and say hello!
14:00 Saturday, 18th Jan 2025
Sonas Coop,
35-37 Market Square South
Our meet-ups are a chance to meet and chat with likeminded people in Lisburn and Lagan Valley. Everyone is welcome, members and non-members alike. Just show up and say hello!
14:00 Saturday, 18th Jan 2025
Sonas Coop,
35-37 Market Square South
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Twelfth Night - Homes For All: Day 5 of 12
NI’s temp housing spend: +495% to £34.5m in 5yrs. = 1 Andersonstown Leisure Centre + change.
Or 230 social homes.
With Shelter NI, we demand change.
GPNI: Build social housing. Permanent fixes, not costly band-aids.
Join: greenpartyni.org/join
NI’s temp housing spend: +495% to £34.5m in 5yrs. = 1 Andersonstown Leisure Centre + change.
Or 230 social homes.
With Shelter NI, we demand change.
GPNI: Build social housing. Permanent fixes, not costly band-aids.
Join: greenpartyni.org/join
January 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Twelfth Night - Homes For All: Day 5 of 12
NI’s temp housing spend: +495% to £34.5m in 5yrs. = 1 Andersonstown Leisure Centre + change.
Or 230 social homes.
With Shelter NI, we demand change.
GPNI: Build social housing. Permanent fixes, not costly band-aids.
Join: greenpartyni.org/join
NI’s temp housing spend: +495% to £34.5m in 5yrs. = 1 Andersonstown Leisure Centre + change.
Or 230 social homes.
With Shelter NI, we demand change.
GPNI: Build social housing. Permanent fixes, not costly band-aids.
Join: greenpartyni.org/join
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GPNI’s Mal O’Hara on BBC Newsline: Late-night transport use up 50% from Christmas 2022, but Belfast faces worsening year-round congestion. Warns traffic will increase without reducing car dependency. We need sustained investment in public transport and active travel to ease city centre congestion.
January 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
GPNI’s Mal O’Hara on BBC Newsline: Late-night transport use up 50% from Christmas 2022, but Belfast faces worsening year-round congestion. Warns traffic will increase without reducing car dependency. We need sustained investment in public transport and active travel to ease city centre congestion.
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1/4 As Twelfth Night's lights fade, thousands in NI face winter without a home. Beyond statistics lie real stories: families in temporary housing, young people priced out & elderly choosing between heat or food.
#NIHousingCrisis #TwelfthNight2025 #HomelessNI
#NIHousingCrisis #TwelfthNight2025 #HomelessNI
January 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
1/4 As Twelfth Night's lights fade, thousands in NI face winter without a home. Beyond statistics lie real stories: families in temporary housing, young people priced out & elderly choosing between heat or food.
#NIHousingCrisis #TwelfthNight2025 #HomelessNI
#NIHousingCrisis #TwelfthNight2025 #HomelessNI
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Happy New Year from all at Green Party NI! 🎉
We look forward to working together in 2025 for a fairer, greener future. Thanks to our members, councillors, volunteers, & everyone making a difference in their communities.
Let’s make this year one of hope, action, & progress for people and planet. 🌍💚
We look forward to working together in 2025 for a fairer, greener future. Thanks to our members, councillors, volunteers, & everyone making a difference in their communities.
Let’s make this year one of hope, action, & progress for people and planet. 🌍💚
December 31, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Happy New Year from all at Green Party NI! 🎉
We look forward to working together in 2025 for a fairer, greener future. Thanks to our members, councillors, volunteers, & everyone making a difference in their communities.
Let’s make this year one of hope, action, & progress for people and planet. 🌍💚
We look forward to working together in 2025 for a fairer, greener future. Thanks to our members, councillors, volunteers, & everyone making a difference in their communities.
Let’s make this year one of hope, action, & progress for people and planet. 🌍💚
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To everyone fighting for social and economic justice.
To those standing with marginalised communities.
To the carers, volunteers, campaigners, and advocates working tirelessly for a fairer, greener future.
We see you. We value you. And we’re with you.
Happy Christmas
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To those standing with marginalised communities.
To the carers, volunteers, campaigners, and advocates working tirelessly for a fairer, greener future.
We see you. We value you. And we’re with you.
Happy Christmas
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December 24, 2024 at 5:03 PM
To everyone fighting for social and economic justice.
To those standing with marginalised communities.
To the carers, volunteers, campaigners, and advocates working tirelessly for a fairer, greener future.
We see you. We value you. And we’re with you.
Happy Christmas
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To those standing with marginalised communities.
To the carers, volunteers, campaigners, and advocates working tirelessly for a fairer, greener future.
We see you. We value you. And we’re with you.
Happy Christmas
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And a special thank you to our dedicated volunteers, hardworking councillors, our members and our friends in community and voluntary organisations. Together, we’re making a difference.
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December 23, 2024 at 6:06 PM
And a special thank you to our dedicated volunteers, hardworking councillors, our members and our friends in community and voluntary organisations. Together, we’re making a difference.
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From field to forest, your voice matters. Northern Ireland's countryside needs champions who understand its value. Ready to protect our rural heritage whilst building a sustainable future? We’re planning a series of rural meetings. Let's talk in 2025.
Contact us: party.dev@greenpartyni.org
Contact us: party.dev@greenpartyni.org
December 21, 2024 at 9:45 AM
From field to forest, your voice matters. Northern Ireland's countryside needs champions who understand its value. Ready to protect our rural heritage whilst building a sustainable future? We’re planning a series of rural meetings. Let's talk in 2025.
Contact us: party.dev@greenpartyni.org
Contact us: party.dev@greenpartyni.org
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Another bloody nose for the Alliance Minister and his party's supposedly environmental credentials.
Happy Xmas.
Happy Xmas.
🎄Glad tidings we bring to you and for your environment.
The Supreme Court rejects the Minister's appeal of the Gas Caverns judgment.
This means our win at the Court of Appeal - still stands!
Huge thanks @pilsni.bsky.social Uplift, Law for Change, @wildjustice.bsky.social and you!
#nogascaverns
The Supreme Court rejects the Minister's appeal of the Gas Caverns judgment.
This means our win at the Court of Appeal - still stands!
Huge thanks @pilsni.bsky.social Uplift, Law for Change, @wildjustice.bsky.social and you!
#nogascaverns
December 20, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Another bloody nose for the Alliance Minister and his party's supposedly environmental credentials.
Happy Xmas.
Happy Xmas.
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"I'm prepared to give him the opportunity to prove himself", says the Judge. Unfortunately the way he will prove, or fail to prove himself, is in his next relationship. Our judicial system needs to stop sacrificing women at the altar of men's second chances.
A man who choked his partner and pulled clumps of hair as he repeatedly slammed her head against a toilet avoids jail @BelTel
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...
Thug who forced victim to flee topless to neighbours for help avoids jail
A thug who choked his partner and pulled clumps of hair as he repeatedly slammed her head against a toilet has narrowly avoided jail.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
December 19, 2024 at 9:41 AM
"I'm prepared to give him the opportunity to prove himself", says the Judge. Unfortunately the way he will prove, or fail to prove himself, is in his next relationship. Our judicial system needs to stop sacrificing women at the altar of men's second chances.
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MONTHLY MEET-UP, winter solstice edition!
Want a greener cleaner fairer future? Come and meet Lagan Valley Greens and find out what @greenpartyni.bsky.social stands for.
All welcome, members and non-members alike. Just show up and say hello - we’re usually at the back of Sonas.
Want a greener cleaner fairer future? Come and meet Lagan Valley Greens and find out what @greenpartyni.bsky.social stands for.
All welcome, members and non-members alike. Just show up and say hello - we’re usually at the back of Sonas.
December 13, 2024 at 8:13 PM
MONTHLY MEET-UP, winter solstice edition!
Want a greener cleaner fairer future? Come and meet Lagan Valley Greens and find out what @greenpartyni.bsky.social stands for.
All welcome, members and non-members alike. Just show up and say hello - we’re usually at the back of Sonas.
Want a greener cleaner fairer future? Come and meet Lagan Valley Greens and find out what @greenpartyni.bsky.social stands for.
All welcome, members and non-members alike. Just show up and say hello - we’re usually at the back of Sonas.
Imagine reducing pollution in our towns and cities by 40% simply by making cycling safe and easy. 🤷🏻♂️
“It's amazing how pollution has dropped in #Paris in 15 years. @annehidalgo.bsky.social has filled the city with bike-lanes & not only has she reduced pollution by 40% but she’s also been re-elected.”
Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.
Trading car space for green space, bike space, kid space…trading pollution for people. Good trade.
Es alucinante cómo ha bajado la contaminación en París en 15 años. Anne Hidalgo lo ha llenado todo de carriles bici y no sólo ha reducido la contaminación en un 40%, sino que ha sido reelegida.
December 18, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Imagine reducing pollution in our towns and cities by 40% simply by making cycling safe and easy. 🤷🏻♂️
DFI Minister John O’Dowd should talk to the Health Minister and do some joined up governing. Dithering over cycling infrastructure, putting taxis in bus lanes, underfunding public transport, and raising fares is simply not healthy.
Commuting by bike is.
Commuting by bike is.
17-year-long Scottish study of 82,000+ adults finds commuting by bike reduces your risk of:
• early death
• hospitalisation for any reason
• cardiovascular disease
• cancer mortality
• treatment for mental health problems.
Yeah, but those LTNs and bike lanes are *really* annoying.
• early death
• hospitalisation for any reason
• cardiovascular disease
• cancer mortality
• treatment for mental health problems.
Yeah, but those LTNs and bike lanes are *really* annoying.
December 18, 2024 at 8:59 PM
DFI Minister John O’Dowd should talk to the Health Minister and do some joined up governing. Dithering over cycling infrastructure, putting taxis in bus lanes, underfunding public transport, and raising fares is simply not healthy.
Commuting by bike is.
Commuting by bike is.
Refugees & migrants welcome.
This #InternationalMigrantsDay, we teamed up with @zoejardiniere.bsky.social to call for a fairer asylum system.
Share this video & let people in power know we need real solutions – not fearmongering 💛
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtgz...
#HumanRights #PaidPartnership #RefugeesWelcome
Share this video & let people in power know we need real solutions – not fearmongering 💛
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtgz...
#HumanRights #PaidPartnership #RefugeesWelcome
It's time to have a serious conversation about migration.
YouTube video by Amnesty International UK
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Refugees & migrants welcome.
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I was made aware this morning of this act of evil. I hope the police get the scumbags concerned and hammer them in the courts.
Both the PSNI and Belfast City Council’s animal welfare team have launched investigations after two XL Bully dogs were found starved to death at a property near the Cregagh estate at the weekend.
Probe after two XL Bully dogs found starved to death in flat
Both the PSNI and Belfast City Council’s animal welfare team have launched investigations after two XL Bully dogs were found starved to death at a property near the Cregagh estate at the weekend.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
December 16, 2024 at 9:27 PM
I was made aware this morning of this act of evil. I hope the police get the scumbags concerned and hammer them in the courts.
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A Sinn Fein ministers approach to transport 👇
1. Tell everyone to use buses to help ease congestion 👍
2. Funnell thousands of private hire taxis into bus lanes, clogging up lanes and hammering public transport 👎
The sheer incompetence is astonishing and dire for the future of transport here
1. Tell everyone to use buses to help ease congestion 👍
2. Funnell thousands of private hire taxis into bus lanes, clogging up lanes and hammering public transport 👎
The sheer incompetence is astonishing and dire for the future of transport here
December 17, 2024 at 11:58 AM
A Sinn Fein ministers approach to transport 👇
1. Tell everyone to use buses to help ease congestion 👍
2. Funnell thousands of private hire taxis into bus lanes, clogging up lanes and hammering public transport 👎
The sheer incompetence is astonishing and dire for the future of transport here
1. Tell everyone to use buses to help ease congestion 👍
2. Funnell thousands of private hire taxis into bus lanes, clogging up lanes and hammering public transport 👎
The sheer incompetence is astonishing and dire for the future of transport here
DFI Minister John O'Dowd making reactionary policy under pressure from drivers…
This is a contradictory transport policy following delays to cycling infrastructure. It undermines
public transport and increases
danger to cyclists.
Policy confusion and
political expediency over long-term planning!
This is a contradictory transport policy following delays to cycling infrastructure. It undermines
public transport and increases
danger to cyclists.
Policy confusion and
political expediency over long-term planning!
"The Green Party is calling for a transport strategy that is fit for purpose and future focused, which prioritises walking and cycling and the use of public transport to get around our city, rather than short term solutions that will only make the situation worse for all road users."
Read more 👇
Read more 👇
Private taxis in bus lanes "an act of desperation with little regard for the wider consequences" - Cllr Smyth
www.greenpartyni.org
December 17, 2024 at 5:11 PM
DFI Minister John O'Dowd making reactionary policy under pressure from drivers…
This is a contradictory transport policy following delays to cycling infrastructure. It undermines
public transport and increases
danger to cyclists.
Policy confusion and
political expediency over long-term planning!
This is a contradictory transport policy following delays to cycling infrastructure. It undermines
public transport and increases
danger to cyclists.
Policy confusion and
political expediency over long-term planning!
MONTHLY MEET-UP, winter solstice edition!
Want a greener cleaner fairer future? Come and meet Lagan Valley Greens and find out what @greenpartyni.bsky.social stands for.
All welcome, members and non-members alike. Just show up and say hello - we’re usually at the back of Sonas.
Want a greener cleaner fairer future? Come and meet Lagan Valley Greens and find out what @greenpartyni.bsky.social stands for.
All welcome, members and non-members alike. Just show up and say hello - we’re usually at the back of Sonas.
December 13, 2024 at 8:13 PM
MONTHLY MEET-UP, winter solstice edition!
Want a greener cleaner fairer future? Come and meet Lagan Valley Greens and find out what @greenpartyni.bsky.social stands for.
All welcome, members and non-members alike. Just show up and say hello - we’re usually at the back of Sonas.
Want a greener cleaner fairer future? Come and meet Lagan Valley Greens and find out what @greenpartyni.bsky.social stands for.
All welcome, members and non-members alike. Just show up and say hello - we’re usually at the back of Sonas.
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Attended a silent protest tonight outside Stormont as an ally to Trans folks in our community who have been betrayed by the executive, particularly by those parties claiming to be progressive.
You can't march in pride every year for the photo ops, only to drop our community at the first hurdle.
You can't march in pride every year for the photo ops, only to drop our community at the first hurdle.
December 12, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Attended a silent protest tonight outside Stormont as an ally to Trans folks in our community who have been betrayed by the executive, particularly by those parties claiming to be progressive.
You can't march in pride every year for the photo ops, only to drop our community at the first hurdle.
You can't march in pride every year for the photo ops, only to drop our community at the first hurdle.
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In August, a Sinn Fein spokesperson said decisions around puberty blockers should be left to medical professionals, not politicians.
Sinn Fein & Alliance ministers then implement a ban without publishing any evidence, so what has changed?
Where are the allies within those parties to call this out?
Sinn Fein & Alliance ministers then implement a ban without publishing any evidence, so what has changed?
Where are the allies within those parties to call this out?
December 11, 2024 at 4:01 PM
In August, a Sinn Fein spokesperson said decisions around puberty blockers should be left to medical professionals, not politicians.
Sinn Fein & Alliance ministers then implement a ban without publishing any evidence, so what has changed?
Where are the allies within those parties to call this out?
Sinn Fein & Alliance ministers then implement a ban without publishing any evidence, so what has changed?
Where are the allies within those parties to call this out?
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Extraordinary decision by Wes Streeting blocking access to puberty blockers for trans people facing puberty.
Love and solidarity to trans friends, colleagues, young people and their families and to everyone heart broken by this cruel step.
Love and solidarity to trans friends, colleagues, young people and their families and to everyone heart broken by this cruel step.
December 11, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Extraordinary decision by Wes Streeting blocking access to puberty blockers for trans people facing puberty.
Love and solidarity to trans friends, colleagues, young people and their families and to everyone heart broken by this cruel step.
Love and solidarity to trans friends, colleagues, young people and their families and to everyone heart broken by this cruel step.
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Feeling sad and angry that we have to do this, but please come and join the cycle vigil organised for Gary McMahon who was killed while cycling just days ago.
No more excuses. Build safe infrastructure now @deptinfra.bsky.social
No more excuses. Build safe infrastructure now @deptinfra.bsky.social
Please consider joining this cycle vigil organised by the cycling community for Gary McMahon.
Meet at 3pm in Writers Sq to participate in the cycle or 3.30pm in Henry Pl for the silent vigil.
For more details see:
belfastcyclecampaign.com/events
Meet at 3pm in Writers Sq to participate in the cycle or 3.30pm in Henry Pl for the silent vigil.
For more details see:
belfastcyclecampaign.com/events
December 4, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Feeling sad and angry that we have to do this, but please come and join the cycle vigil organised for Gary McMahon who was killed while cycling just days ago.
No more excuses. Build safe infrastructure now @deptinfra.bsky.social
No more excuses. Build safe infrastructure now @deptinfra.bsky.social