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The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP; Irish: Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) is a social-democratic and Irish nationalistpolitical party in Northern Ireland. The SDLP currently has three MPs in the House of Commons, and 14 MLAs in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The SDLP party platform advocates Irish unification, and the further devolution of powers while Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom. During the Troubles, the SDLP was the most popular Irish nationalist party in Northern Ireland, but since the Provisional IRA ceasefire in 1994 it has lost ground to the left-wing republican party Sinn Féin, which in 2001 became the more popular of the two parties for the first time. Established during the Troubles, a significant difference between the two parties was the SDLP's rejection of violence, in contrast to Sinn Féin's support for the Provisional IRA and physical force republicanism. The SDLP has fraternal links with other European social-democratic parties, including the Irish Labour Party and British Labour Party (neither of which contest elections in Northern Ireland), and is affiliated to the Socialist International and Party of European Socialists.
Gerard Adams (Irish: Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh; born 6 October 1948) is an Irish republican politician who is the president of the Sinn Féin political party, and a Teachta Dála (Member of Parliament) for Louth since the 2011 general election.
From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he was an abstentionist Westminster Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast West.
He has been the president of Sinn Féin since 1983. Since that time the party has become the fourth-largest party in the Republic of Ireland, the second-largest political party in Northern Ireland and the largest Irish nationalist party in that region. In 1984, Adams was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by several gunmen from the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) including John Gregg. From the late 1980s onwards, Adams was an important figure in the Northern Ireland peace process, initially following contact by the then-Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) leader John Hume and then subsequently with the Irish and British governments.
Build a Better Future - SDLP Election Broadcast 2016
SDLP MPs affirming their allegiance to British Queen
SDLP - L' effet de la Ganja
Gerry Adams comments on SDLP 'outrageous'
SDLP Popularity falls and Sinn Fein Rises
SDLP FT KUN fuCK YOu
SDLP ft KUN (Mi Estilo Es Mio)
Voitures de police banalisées SDLP/GSPR // Unmarked Police Cars Responding
Let's Build A Better Future
SDLP Political broadcast
Together we have the power to change society. The power to end forced emigration and make sure that our education and skills training matches the ambition of our young people. The power to provide working parents with more free childcare and ensuring the investment goes where it is needed most. The power to ensure that the North takes it's rightful place in Ireland and in Europe. Join us and build a better future.
Gerry Adams comments on SDLP 'outrageous' The SDLP's Alban Maginness has said comments made by Sinn Féin Gerry Adams where he said he had 'no confidence' in SDLP as outrageous. Mr Adams was asked by BBC Vote 2014's Mark Carruthers why he did not encourage transfers to the SDLP. Following a heated debate with Mr Maginness, Mr Adams said the results had led to 'a good day for Ireland' and 'people who want to see progress'
Quelques courtes vidéos de voitures de police banalisées, notamment des voitures de la Service de la protection (SDLP) et du Groupe de sécurité de la présidence de la République (GSPR) en urgence dans Paris. A few short clips of unmarked police cars used for the protection of the president or other VIPs in France. Paris, France. 06.2014
Through the grey frosty dawn
Every cold winter's morn
Rode this lad full of life and joy,
Every day just the same,
Down the roadway he came,
He was known as their own saddle boy.
In his youth, free from strife
He was called from this life,
From the sorrows of life's highway.
He was needed above
At the homestead of love,
For the last final roundup some day.
Now the sad willows wave
O'er the cold silent grave,
Where the tall grasses bend and bow,
And the jackass's laugh,
Is the only epitah
O'er the grave of this brave saddle boy.
At the school house on the rise,
Teacher always watched the skies
For the storm clouds that rose like foam
You've a long way he said
So you better go ahead
Saddle up saddle boy ride for home.
He had ten miles to ride
Through the dark countryside
As the storm all around raged on
Just one creek left to cross
Struck by driftwood boy and horse
Swept away by the mad raging foam
And the lightning overhead
Showed the last sandy bed
Where the boy and the pony lay
And old boundary rider Troy
Was the one who found the boy
And who took the saddening message home next day.
Now the old people say
Of the long nights in May
When the wind through the valley roam,
Pounding hoof beats resound,
Through the tall timber land
