Belfast Ógra Fianna Fáil

21/02/2026

Congratulations to all elected!

08/04/2021

27/01/2021

🏥 Ógra Welcomes £500 bonus for Nurses 🏥

We welcome the £500 special recognition payment announced today by Minister for Health Robin Swann at Stormont.

Ógra President Tom Cahill wrote to the Minister in December and made the case, on behalf of Ógra, for a £500 bonus for nurses for working during the pandemic. In his letter to the Minister, Mr. Cahill said that a bonus of £500 would amount to approximately £11.5m of a cost to to Executive and that the costs were far outweighed by the work undertaken, and sacrifices made, by nurses during the pandemic.

In reply to the Ógra letter, Chris Wilkinson, Head of the Pay and Employment Unit in the Department of Health thanked Ógra for their proposal and said that the Department would consider options for a payment to all health and social care staff and careers.

The payment needs to be approved by the Department of Finance but we are hopeful that this will be done swiftly.

09/01/2021

The policy allows residents to apply for signs in any language, with Irish expected to be most popular.

29/12/2020

Glad to have our members out alongside Paul Doherty and Foodstock - West Belfast Community Response this Christmas period helping support their Food & Toy Appeal in West Belfast 🎄

It's been great to be involved with such an amazing community response in Belfast to help those struggling in the local area throughout this difficult time 🙌

07/12/2020

West Belfast SDLP Representative Paul Doherty and our team of activists continue to be out in the Black Mountain, Collin and Court areas supporting those struggling within our communities during this COVID-19 period.

If you, a neighbour or family member needs support, please contact us and we will do all we can to help 📨

Alternatively if you'd like to get involved you can send us a message or sign up here 👇
https://www.sdlp.ie/about/get-involved/

29/10/2020

Just six days after she got the powers to do so, SDLP Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon has announced a £19million support scheme for taxi drivers and coach operators.

We will continue to do all we can to support our communities through this health and economic crisis.

27/10/2020

Yesterday I sat down with Fianna Fail TD, Jim O’Callaghan to discuss the new Shared Island Unit announced by the Irish government, Irish Unity, the relationship with the SDLP and the performance of the government during the pandemic. Analysis O’Callaghan takes a more forward line on the issues o...

24/10/2020

Great to be out today with Paul Doherty and the SDLP team delivering food parcels throughout the local community in West Belfast 🙌

22/10/2020