North Down Greens

29/08/2026

Seapark litter pick today 🗑️🌊

Brilliant to join a gaggle of Greens getting stuck in and helping keep our coastline clean.

Huge thanks to everyone who came along.

Community action really does make a difference. 💚

26/08/2026

17/08/2026

Mal O’Hara has been chosen as the Green Party candidate for North Belfast, and he’s ready for the fight ahead.

One in four children in North Belfast live in poverty. Thousands of households are homeless while homes across Ardoyne, Ballysillan and beyond sit empty, cold and falling apart.

That’s not bad luck. That’s a political choice, and it’s one Mal is standing to change.

15/08/2026

40 years of fly-tipping in the Lagan and ten years of political silence. The second the cameras show up, Alliance and the UUP can’t wait to talk.

Alliance holds 13 seats on Lisburn & Castlereagh Council, the second-largest bloc in the chamber. Cllr Nicola Parker isn’t some backbencher who just noticed the car. She’s Vice-Chair of the council’s own Environment and Sustainability Committee.

That’s not a coincidence, that’s the job. And her own quote gives the game away: colleagues have “been working on this for 10 years.” Ten years of minutes, motions and meetings, and the car is still sitting there rotting.

UUP’s Robbie Butler has held elected office in Lagan Valley since 2014 and has chaired the Stormont committee that exists to scrutinise water quality and environmental enforcement for the whole of Northern Ireland since September 2024.

That’s not a junior brief, that’s the post built for exactly this. Two years in that chair, and all he’s found is a microphone.

Green Party Cllr Anthony Flynn, who first raised this issue, said: “We’ve been told for weeks that this isn’t anyone’s job. Not the council’s, not the department’s, not the agency’s.”

Flynn continued: “Now that it’s a headline, everyone’s suddenly got an opinion, but an opinion isn’t the same as taking responsibility.”

Here’s what nobody has actually answered: has anyone even checked whether that car is safe to leave where it is? A vehicle that old may still have a battery in it somewhere, full of heavy metals, quietly corroding in the water.

Everyone is treating this as a tidiness issue. Nobody has confirmed it isn’t also a pollution one.

Richard Gill, Lagan Valley Greens Co-chair, put it plainly: “We don’t know if the battery is still there, we don’t know what’s leaching into the water, and apparently neither does anyone else.”

“That’s not good enough for a river running through the middle of a town.” We’re not bothering with DUP or TUV on this one, nobody pretends they’ll do better.

But Alliance and the UUP have spent years selling themselves as the grown-ups, the competence parties, the “politics done differently” crowd. A decade of committee minutes and trolleys and tyres in the river is not competence.

Titles don’t clean rivers. We aren’t accepting warm words and a quiet removal after this story dies down. We want the car gone, we want the site properly checked for contamination while it’s still there.

And we want it confirmed in writing that this time next summer, the Lagan is clear, not just this car. Sign the petition, back a real Environmental Protection Agency with teeth, and hold these parties to the standard they set for themselves.

Petition in comments.

13/08/2026

Áine Groogan is standing as our Green Party candidate for South Belfast & Mid Down in 2027.

South Belfast & Mid Down lost its Green voice in 2022. Áine wants it back. She’s spent seven years representing the constituency at council level, delivering for people on the ground and holding others to account, not walking away when things get tough.

Stormont and the traditional parties have led us into crisis after crisis. Public services are crumbling, poverty is rising, and thousands are stuck on housing waiting lists with no realistic prospect of a home. When things get tough, they down tools and walk away.

Áine’s record is different. She knows what it takes to change the conversation and deliver real results, not just promises.

06/08/2026

North Down Greens are delighted to announce Cllr. Anthony Flynn as our candidate for upcoming assembly election 💚

01/08/2026

In 2022, many people voted for change.

That year, the Greens lost two seats. But before that, we had already shown what determined Green politics can achieve.

We secured laws to protect women - ending harassment at abortion clinics and guaranteeing 10 days paid leave for domestic violence survivors.

We forced through the Climate Bill. People saw the Greens as a vehicle for real change - not commentary from the sidelines, but action that made a difference.

For many, Alliance became the other vehicle for that hope. They won their strongest-ever Assembly result. They had a clear mandate to deliver a more progressive Northern Ireland - but where is it?

More than four years on people are not looking for more drift and a weak programme for government.

And the pressures people face have only grown.

Homelessness is rising. Inequality is widening. Lough Neagh remains in crisis. Communities have endured repeated outbreaks of racist violence. And long-promised hate crime legislation is still… waiting.

Let me be clear: this is not about attacking Alliance voters. Many people backed them in good faith, hoping politics could finally be different.

But hope has to be matched by delivery.
That is why the Green alternative keeps growing.

People are not looking for more drift. They are looking for a politics that changes daily life - affordable homes, warmer homes, cleaner air, better public transport, stronger public services, and real action on the climate crisis.

This is a politics of hope, not vague promises - practical change people can actually feel.

And it doesn’t stop here.

Across these islands, and right across Europe, people are asking for the same thing: fairness, security, and a politics that finally works for them, not just for those at the top.

More than four years on from the last Assembly election, the question is still the same:
Where is the change?