✨ 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

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

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

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

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.

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. 🌍💚

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 www.instagram.com/p/DD9z2YEKSdA/

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. 2/2

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: [email protected]

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.

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.

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?

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.

Belfast traffic chaos, what’s causing it and what are the solutions? There is simply more people driving into the city centre than what there is space for. Let’s hear from an actual expert… 1/4 www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

This is what years of underinvestment, delay & indecision, not to mention incompetence, has created in Belfast. Prioritising massive expenditure on road building and car parking just makes things worse. Who knew? 🤷🏻‍♂️ Time for massive spending on public transport & active travel infrastructure.

Can’t believe we have to state this again on Human Rights Day, but if Sinn Fein and Alliance are listening - trans rights are human rights.

If there is to be any learning from this level of traffic bedlam in Belfast, its that the status quo isn't sustainable. We need radical solutions to how we move, politicans will have to make uncomfortable short term decisions to get to where we want long term. Are most capable?

Today is Human Rights Day, and here we have the Executive parties letting a vulnerable minority, attacked endlessly by the right wing, down - in such a disappointing way. I do not have trans family but this, for me, is about bodily autonomy and is a red line when in the voting booth.

Sinn Fein and Alliance are complicit in turning failure into betrayal. Trans rights are human rights.

Everyone deserves dignity, equality, and freedom. Human rights are universal — no exceptions. For @greenpartyni.bsky.social, human rights go beyond borders: 1/4

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🌍 2024 has been a challenging year. The climate crisis threatens our communities, with the most vulnerable bearing the heaviest burden. However our determination remains unshaken.

Silver linings

Full respect to emergency services today. I’m so grateful. 🏆👏

🚨 It’s wild windy! 🌬️ If you need to report any problems near you, here are the emergency contact numbers. Stay safe!‼️

Welcome news that the UKG are beginning the process of reforming and replacing the Legacy Act. People’s pain and trauma can’t simply be swept aside for political convenience.

Day 5 of my (b)advent calendar counting down some of the worst crimes commited by fox hunting groups across the country with @huntsabs.bsky.social . . . It’s time for a #RealBanNow – write to your MP and let them know lovera.ge/foxhunting

What’s actually working in NI?

The Stormont Executive are only interested in photo opps and soundbites. None want to lead or tackle the huge structural issues Northern Ireland faces. Instead they chose populism and division.

Called into Cregagh Sports Club & great to see a steady stream calling in to get info on Vacant to Vibrant grant scheme. Myself & @seamasbelfast.bsky.social for a session to be held in the area. The scheme is expanding out of the city centre. Cregagh & Castlereagh Rds have lots of potential.

🚨 Biodiversity in Northern Ireland is plummeting: - 12% of species face extinction. - Farmland birds: ⬇️ 43% since 1996. - Flowering plants: ⬇️ 14% since 1970. - Pollinators: ⬇️ 18%. Ranked 12th WORST GLOBALLY for biodiversity loss, it’s time to demand action. Nature can’t wait. greenpartyni.org/join

1/ The Irish general election results are a stark wake-up call. As the Green Party Ireland faces a dramatic loss in representation, with voters turning to populist parties, we must reflect on what this means for progressive politics, climate action, and our shared future. 🧵

This is wild. “19,000 homes in 23 towns across Northern Ireland are on hold because they cannot be connected to wastewater services. Meanwhile, more than 47,000 people are on housing waiting lists and at least 55,000 are homeless.” #FundPublicServices www.ft.com/content/652b...

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Pavement parking is an absolute scourge on our inner city communities, as well as the city centre. Couple this lapse in legislation with an incompetent department that can't even pedestrianise one street and it's a recipe for disaster. Transport powers should be devolved to Belfast city council.

If you're following the UN plastic treaty talks this week, you'll want to read this 👇 A leaked dossier of 400 documents from a plastic industry group reveals their strategy to combat "a tide of anti-plastic sentiment" - especially among young people. #INC5 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/c...