Lagan Valley Greens

A colourful poster promoting the “Vegan Bake Off” event, organised by Lagan Valley Greens. Key details include: • Date: Saturday 22nd February 2025, 2–4 pm • Location: Sonas Coop Café, 35–37 Market Square, Lisburn BT28 1AD • Entry fee: £2, payable in cash at the door Prizes: Two £20 Sonas vouchers – one for the jury’s choice and one for the popular vote winner. The poster features a vibrant pink background with cupcake illustrations, colourful sprinkles, and bold text. A note at the bottom reads, “Sonas will not be held responsible for any allergens present in the baked goods.”

✨ 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... 🍰

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

A Green Party Northern Ireland campaign graphic with the text ‘1 in 23 in NI homeless. 83,000 people. That’s all of Derry/Londonderry.’ The background features a stylized green image of the ‘Hands Across the Divide’ statue in Derry/Londonderry, with two figures reaching out to each other. Below, a banner reads ‘Twelfth Night: Homes for All’ and the website link ‘greenpartyni.org/join’ is included.

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

Graphic advertising 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 January 2025 Sonas Coop, 35-37 Market Square South

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

Graphic from Green Party of Northern Ireland showing statistics about temporary accommodation costs. The background features the Andersonstown Leisure Centre with its distinctive water slides. Text overlaid states that temporary accommodation costs are up 495% to £34.5M, which is more than the cost of building a new state-of-the-art facility like the Andersonstown Leisure Centre. The bottom features a black brush stroke effect with yellow text reading 'TWELFTH NIGHT HOMES FOR ALL' and the website greenpartyni.org/join. A house icon appears at the top.

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

Mal O’Hara, Green Party leader, is interviewed on BBC Newsline. He is wearing a rainbow-striped scarf and a dark coat, speaking in front of a green map with public transport routes. The BBC Newsline logo and his name are displayed in the lower third of the image.

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.

Graphic image with green background highlighting the fact that 58,238 people are officially homeless in Northern Ireland including 5,106 children. This is a 135% increase in ten years.

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

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. 🌍💚

Mal O’Hara, Party Leader, Green Party Northern Ireland, in the centre of Belfast speaking direct to camera. There are people and busses in the background crossing frame. Mal is wearing a colourful rainbow scarf.

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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A large Christmas tree in Belfast City Hall decorated with spiral red tinsel garlands and white lights, topped with a light-up starfish, displayed in an ornate rotunda with a blue domed ceiling. The image includes text reading 'Season's Greetings' and the Green Party logo at the bottom. The tree appears to be photographed from below, emphasising its height and the architectural details of the decorated ceiling with its ornamental moldings and stained glass windows.

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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Image of a tree against a plain background with a headline “Rural Voices Green Choices” above text advising that the Green Party are hosting meet-ups across the country in 2025, bringing together people who care about protecting our rural heritage whilst building a sustainable future. To join in, Email: party.dev@greenpartyni.org. Green Party NI features prominently.

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

Another bloody nose for the Alliance Minister and his party's supposedly environmental credentials.

Happy Xmas.

"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.

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.

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.

Refugees & migrants welcome.

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.

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

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!

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.

Stand by your Trans rally outside Stormont tonight with a banner and a crowd of attendees.

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.

There’s plenty of space for people if we use our loaf and think creatively about more communal living. bsky.app/profile/lane...

No. There aren’t many Labour MPs and few government departments.

In a statement, a Sinn Féin spokesperson said the party "accepts the current medical advice from the chief medical officer" and that they will monitor the British Medical Association's review of the Cass Report. "To be clear, our position is that clinical and health care is best determined by doctors and clinicians - not politicians - and needs to be informed by the clinical and scientific evidence," the spokesperson added.

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?

Guardian article with photo of Wes Streeting MP with his chin in the air defiantly. Red background. Headline “puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under 18s across the UK”

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.

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

Wes Streetings decision to ban puberty blockers should be called out for what it is.

He's playing culture wars where trans & non binary youth are collateral damage & Labour dance to Reforms tune.

An attack on trans people is an attack on our LGBTQ+ community. We must say no.

Three things which could help fix Belfast traffic chaos, according to a roads expert Many parts of the city centre have faced gridlock in the weeks following the opening of the new £340m Grand Central station

1 Reduce public transport fares
2 Park & ride
3 Money

+ invest in walking & cycling infrastructure

Simples

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Three things which could help fix Belfast traffic chaos, according to a roads expert Many parts of the city centre have faced gridlock in the weeks following the opening of the new £340m Grand Central station

“The solution is to have other ways of bringing people in and out of the city that doesn’t involve cars.

“The difficulty is that the alternative forms of that we have at the moment just aren’t good enough.”

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