Social Democratic and Labour Party

Um, a couple of funny comments.

Uh, the SDLP conference is on today.

Claire Hanna, the party's leader, uh, suggested that, uh, people were surprised that, uh, that Donald Trump was not as orange as he looked, uh, which I think was probably line of the day.

Um, and he did kind of touch on it at the start of his address in Deerfield as well, didn't he?

«Todo el mundo tiene derecho a una opinión personal, incluso cuando está equivocada», replicó el exdiputado del DUP, Ian Paisley, y amigo cercano de la familia Trump.

Tras acoger con satisfacción sus comentarios, la líder del Partido Socialdemócrata y Laborista, SDLP, Claire Hanna, afirmó que era algo bastante extraordinario en que Trump estuviera en Dublín hablando abiertamente sobre la unidad irlandesa.

Welcoming his comments, the leader of the Social Democratic Party, Labour and Social Democrats, SDLP, Claire Hanna, said that there was something quite extraordinary about Trump being in Dublin.

He was talking openly about Irish unity.

Tras acoger con satisfacción sus comentarios, la líder del Partido Socialdemócrata y Laborista, SDLP, Claire Hanna, afirmó que era algo bastante extraordinario en que Trump estuviera en Dublín hablando abiertamente sobre la unidad irlandesa.

«Cuando incluso Donald Trump se ha dado cuenta de que la unidad irlandesa ya no es una perspectiva lejana o teórica, eso dice mucho sobre lo mucho que ha cambiado este debate», dijo.

«When even Donald Trump has realized that Irish unity is no longer a distant prospect or a rich one, that says a lot about how much this debate has changed», he said.

A couple of funny comments.

The SDLP conference is on today.

Claire Hanna, the party's leader, suggested that people were surprised that Donald Trump was not as orange as he looked, which I think was probably line of the day.

And he did kind of touch on it at the start of his address in Deerfield as well, didn't he?

It's going to be on this day as well.

Paddy Devlin, you know, he would have been a senior in the SDLP.

He said that it was the SDLP who convinced the Irish government to take the case, kind of forced the Irish government to take the case to the EEC.

And this is, you know, around the time of the commencement of the term in 71.

And yeah, there is some kind of result here in 76, but then it's kind of, It's downgraded in 78.

probably should have stopped it.

And again, you know, some people are propaganda coup for Republicans, you know, that attorneys are not only being arrested, they're without charge and held without charge and tortured.

But we spoke with us a few weeks ago that Brian Faulkner the man who actually introduced he was because Stormont was still on the go in 71 so he was the Prime Minister brought it in and he suggested in 76 to reintroduce internment and Gerry Fitt the leader of the SDLP said that just will be like the IRA are on the way now you know they're losing popularity that would be an absolute propaganda win for they would love that it did we saw like the effects of internment did the numbers in the IRA swelled afterwards so yeah it was a disastrous policy not just from the mistreatment of people and the way it was done as well it was very cruel and very sporadic and you know I think it was only a few years afterwards that they actually had better intel you know had good intel to go on whether people could be involved in

We were very much in the middle.

My parents voted SDLP, which was the Social Democratic and Labour Party.

And for the most part, this fraction and this fraction were minorities.

And for the most part, people sat in the middle.

On tomorrow's panel, we have your party parliamentary leader and, of course, former Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, your constituency neighbour.

Businessman, Sir Martin Sorrell, Conservative MP, Dr Neil Shastry-Hurst, plus the Northern Irish SDLP leader, Clare Hanna.

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